Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unbelievable, but true: Boston weather has played into our hands. Despite the set-to's it originates with the four month boys in the breakfast line; despite the trial on the entry duty officers, and despite the necessity of foregoing the obvious pleasure of taking our deepknee bends before dawn with the midshipmen, we've spent a fortunate week in the sack-hitting regard. And to make it better, the monsoon season is overdue...
...Slovaks, such as one-time Prime Minister Milan Hodza, now in the U.S., hope that Slovaks in Slovakia will forget their taste of "independence" and cooperate in making a healthy, democratic postwar Czechoslovakia. Priest-President Tiso apparently thinks that they may be willing to try. Said he, in an obvious and ominous move to quell opposition to his brand of independence: "If there were no executions until now, it is not because a priest could not sign a death sentence...
Bigger Game. The obvious aim of the operation was even bigger. On Feb. 16 Truk was first struck, but the Japanese pulled back their naval units. On Feb. 22 a similar blow was made at Saipan; again the Japanese drew back. Although they did not give up these islands-their garrisons will probably stay put till rooted out-this Japanese naval retirement meant that the Japanese had to withdraw their main seaborne supply route farther west, until it was out of U.S. reach...
...four-year-old formula (gross sales: around $2,000 a week), manufactured by a Scottish Chicagoan, the late Douglas Smith. Lasker agreed to risk $300,000 to advertise the new product, asked only a minority interest in the company in return. Before long, thanks to Lord & Thomas, it was obvious that profit-minded Lasker had made one of the best deals of his life...
...trial was also a clinical study of unusual interest to doctors and psychiatrists. For it was obvious last week that Defense Attorney Edward V. Broderick would make some plea of insanity involving homosexuality. Again & again he asked discomfited would-be jurors: "Would you be prejudiced, one way or another, against psychiatric or psychological testimony?" The defense would apparently try to prove: 1) that Lonergan was too unstable to commit premeditated murder; or 2) temporary insanity...