Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Picayune. The reporters rested momentarily. Up popped the New York Herald Tribune's able Washington bureau chief, Bert Andrews, with the obvious question: "Does all that add up to a fourth-term declaration?" When the laughter died down the President replied (authorizing only this much of his remarks for direct quotation...
...Department looked to the PIR to set matters aright; that the PIR was nothing but a Soviet tool, and therefore suspect. (The sources of this report had apparently not heard about Teheran.) Secretary Cordell Hull conferred for an hour with British Ambassador Lord Halifax, discussing the Bolivian crisis. Obvious topic would be a possible united front against Argentina and her suspected machinations...
...Current. Reports were heard of plots in other Latin American countries-Venezuela, Chile, Peru. Some were mere rumors, but it was obvious that a continental current was flowing. The success of the "Colonels' Clique" in Argentina, if underlined by a similar "Majors' Clique" in Bolivia, might encourage further army officer revolts. These might be purely nationalist in origin, not necessarily instigated by outsiders, but they would probably take Fascist forms and look to Argentina for support. Then the U.S. would be confronted by a powerful anti-democratic bloc within the "Good Neighbor" circle...
Anxious to preserve the ape colony, the British recently brought in two males from Tetuan. They were called Monty and Ike (for obvious generals). Inexplicably, Ike died. For Monty, a female was flown from Algiers in a bomber. Her crate was labeled "On His Majesty's Service...
Objective? Berlin glumly guessed that the Nevel force aimed at a breakthrough to the Baltic Sea, thus cutting off the German troops in the north. Moscow confirmed these fears by designating the force as the First Baltic Army. But it seemed obvious that before striking west, this powerful army would have to crush the enemy's stronghold at Vitebsk...