Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Need for an amphibious operation to turn the enemy flank became obvious. The allied seaborne attack on the Anzio beachhead was launched...
Promoting the Obvious. To fine-point students, or those economists who are well along on devising long-term rationales for the U.S. economy, the report seemed disappointingly obvious. This, too, could be construed as a triumph for the Ba-ruchian wisdom, which is as platitudinous as most wisdom in that it concentrates on the all-too-often-forgotten obvious things, which are so often the fundamentals. As Clausewitz contributed to military science such statements as "the overthrow of the Enemy [is] the aim of military action," so Messrs. Baruch & Hancock advise the U.S.: "Transition from a war economy to that...
...with every special interest in & out of Government demanding particulars, Messrs. Baruch & Hancock took a cold look at policy problems in general-and drew obvious conclusions. The great service that the report performed for the nation was that it dumped a lot of particular problems into one package and suggested some common-sense ways to lick them before they could lick the nation...
...doubts are there. U.S. voters as yet-although June would be the proper time-were certainly not sold on any one Republican candidate as the obvious and unquestionable Man of the Hour. They were slipping away from Franklin Roosevelt, but they had not yet collected under any one Republican banner...
...staid (but never slow) New York Times last week bought a radio station. Sold for an undisclosed amount was Manhattan's WQXR (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), famed for its steady stream of good music. Aside from the obvious reason that a newspaper buys a radio station to disseminate news and keep its name before the public, one reason why the Times bought it probably had to do with a man named Hogan...