Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throw-back to the days of "Ben-Hur," "Sign of the Cross" is a mammoth in the tradition of the twenties, when producers undertook to carry out such colossal, stupendous ideas as filming the Bible. It demonstrates the obvious fact that sensuous revels cannot be mixed with martyrs to produce sincere religious inspiration, and it proves that the genuine fervor of the Passion Play cannot be transferred to the screen...
...Biggest G.M. write-off was the $35 million G.M.-owned Adam Opel A.G. auto and truck manufacturing works at Rüsselsheim, Germany. No G.M. official has any authentic information about the damage done to Opel when the R.A.F. heavily bombed the plant twice last summer. But the obvious conclusion was that the damage reports by bomber pilots satisfied the economic warfare experts in London who had Opel marked for a knockout...
P.S.P. & T., which expects soon to reach an annual production of 1,750,000 gallons, has already started diverting its sudsy, yellowish sulphite waste liquors through a six-story, million-dollar moonshiner's dream of a still (built and owned by the Defense Plant Corp.). Its obvious hurry to get into production has two prime causes, beyond Government needs: 1) so long as the war lasts, the Government will buy all of Puget Sound's output, but thereafter the mill will have to compete in a civilian market against the vast flow of more cheaply produced grain...
...stature by his sane and balanced arguments, his parliamentary and diplomatic steadiness. In the debates on Poland and Greece he was completely at ease before the House. As he spoke, he turned toward all parts of the Chamber, gestured, seldom referred to notes, discussed broad international problems with such obvious grasp that even opponents were convinced that he had left his hat at home...
Soaring higher, he smiled benignly on the obvious winners of World War II. Argentina would not, he said, go to war with Germany. That would be undignified (with Germany nearly licked). But he wanted "to demonstrate our desire for friendly relations with all the nations of the Americas, the U.S. included." Franklin D. Roosevelt, he cooed, had "faced titanic problems bravely." He even tossed rosebuds toward Moscow: "We as a nation cannot ignore Russia as a great factor in the world. . . . We should initiate steps toward formal relations with Moscow...