Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January, U.S. secret servicemen were told by their superiors that the President was in serious ill health. Secret service chiefs took the obvious precautions: they picked a bodyguard for Vice President Harry Truman, told it to stand by for a sudden call to duty...
Crisis, Crisis. The imminence of war in 1940, and the crisis of it in 1944, unquestionably helped give Franklin Roosevelt Terms III and IV. Precedent, a longing for new faces, the obvious aging of the President and his Administration were all against it. But World War II was.also a time for greatness; most of the U.S. believed that the President measured up to the time...
Nobody was impressed. Exiled Socialist Indalecio Prieto, last Republican War Minister, who is now in Washington working for a Republican comeback, spoke for the skeptics: "An obvious act of cynical shame. . . . No one can get away with such a double-faced game. Franco will be through the day Germany is defeated...
...free because it takes no ads, how can the Sun carry ads and be free? Devout PM readers might not like the obvious Field answer: if you make a good enough newspaper, advertisers will have to come to you on your terms...
...asked editors to go easy on discussing "expectations or probabilities" about the future of Russo-Japanese relations. Reason: "speculations . . . however erroneous they might prove to be, could possibly lead to a Japanese attack on Russia." The Washington Post, which like many a U.S. paper had already made the obvious deduction that Russia's denunciation of its Jap pact "bodes a break sooner or later," confessed to unwittingly violating censorship: "Our consternation over the gaffe is somewhat lightened by the discovery that we are in rather distinguished company . . . Senator Elbert Thomas [and] Senator Johnson...