Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack began, "Jumbo" Wilson stated its obvious aim. Said he in an official proclamation: the objective is "to drive out the Germans and join up with the Allied armies advancing from Normandy." Clearly laid out for his forces were two major routes to the north: up the Rhone valley through the eastern third of France, westward through the Garonne valley to Bordeaux, to meet the Americans ready to strike south from the Loire...
...Built in U.S.A. is an argument for the clean beauty and intelligence of modern architecture, it also makes obvious how much a luxury good modernism remains. Many of the buildings in the book are obviously pleasure domes of great expense. All of the buildings imply the services of a modern architect, beyond the reach of ordinary pocketbooks except in the case of a few new low-cost housing developments. Modern architecture for the general public still waits for public taste to demand it from reactionary building contractors and building-trade unions...
...held hard to their Norman anchor below Caen. But they saw the threat. To consolidate against a possible swift U.S. flanking envelopment, the Germans quickly made an orderly withdrawal behind the Orne River. Below Caen the weight of British and Canadian armor was still poised for a breakout. Its obvious first use would be to punch the Germans back against the Seine...
Presidential Portrait. Author Busch, who believes that the truth is generally obvious, re-examines the facts of Mr. Roosevelt's life from the viewpoint of an amateur and humane psychoanalyst. What emerges is a friendly and convincing portrait of a man whose paramount drives are a love of people and excitement, a dislike of friction and contradiction. He is "a good but not a very wise man; vain, captious, overconfident and warmhearted; no more honest than most, but friendlier than the average; courageous but at the same time . . . not totally without a certain somewhat meretricious grandeur...
...Since the U.S. will in any event have to supply most of the postwar loans made for reconstruction and development, the effect of the Bank will be to make the rest of the world foot the bill for over 65% of the losses, if any. Aside from the obvious American gain under this arrangement, the world gets a profit too. For, with the Bank's guarantee, lenders can afford to lend more than they otherwise might. Thus there will be $9.1 billion of capital available for reconstruction and development by the countries which need it badly. Compared...