Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Revolt. To the seething union the case was obvious-the company was maintaining womanpower in Dayton's war-tight labor market without raising its basic wage rates. Finally the foot-tapping ceased. With abrupt, feminine exasperation, the operators went on strike...
...Moscow Pravda attacked the efforts of the French and Belgian Governments to disarm the Resistance groups: "Europe is winning release from a nightmare. Is it not obvious that the most important question facing the liberated country is complete elimination of any remnants of Fascist influence...
...That no other country fills this bill is obvious from the facts and the history of the last few years," said B.I.S. "As a customer, Britain bought American exports totaling $521,000,000 in 1938. In prewar years she was consistently the biggest foreign customer of the U.S. . . . Britain is, in fact, so big a customer that economists agree that her purchases or lack of them are enough to tip the balance between prosperity and slump in America...
Deceivingly billed as "M-G-M's Terrific Western Thriller," the new Beery vehicle (with square wheels) is really a wishy-washy comedy. Beefy Beory is just an easy-going tramp, very un-high waymanlike, who by very obvious means terrorizes a hunk of the Wild West by holding up stage coaches while posing as a respectable citizen...
Washington claimed two direct hits on "a Japanese ship that was in the drydock for repairs," an obvious hint that the Japs might soon find naval repairs impossible anywhere south of Japan itself...