Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London packed off more women & children (more than 182,000), heard renewed assurances that the robot bombs could not possibly affect the course of the war. The course of Londoners' lives was another matter. Home Security Minister Herbert Morrison had to admit what was deadly obvious: "We have not beaten...
Chiang was urged to look to Communist Marshal Tito for a model. "The Army of Marshal Tito has 300,000 while Chiang's has 3,000,000. Nevertheless, the success of the Yugoslav Army is obvious, which cannot be said at the present time for the National Government of China. This is explained by the powerful unity of the Yugoslav peoples." China's unity, said War and the Working Class, "can be achieved only on the base of democracy...
With history in mind, Phil Murray proposed an organization which would promote labor's interests within the two-party system, but which would have a platform and party workers of its own. The choice of Sidney Hillman as head of the P.A.C. was obvious-he had long been labor's shrewdest, most pragmatic politicker, with connections in the White House...
...busily trapping beavers. They would send the live animals north to the even quieter waters of the Kesagami Beaver and Fur Preserve. There only the red man may trap. Explained Supervisor Conn: "Doles [do not] solve the [Indian] economic problem. . . . They have lived by the hunt for centuries. The obvious answer ... is to restore fur bearers...
What to do? One obvious move was to sack a general (see Battle of France). There was even a rumor that Hitler himself might assume command in the west, a move not calculated to reassure German soldiers lucky enough to have survived the Fuhrer's earlier experiments with the intuitive method of military command...