Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, the survivors returned with reinforcements to retake Changteh. The Japs seized or burned the rice stores, retreated when it was obvious that the Chinese lines would only bend, not break. Once again Chinese resistance and Jap half measures had disposed of a threat to U.S. air bases in central China, a threat which might have been serious if the Japs had chosen to bring enough strength against the ill-fed, ill-equipped Chinese...
...first one gives Betty Fields a chance to act, and on that account alone is top-notch. It could even be a very good story if the moral, Beauty is a Force Within You, weren't pointed too obviously and too often. The second is also about a Force Within You, but this is a Force of a different color, an evil one. This Force appears as the mirror image of Edward G. Robinson and by its continual wise-cracking turns the story into a parody in spite of the intentions of the writer and the efforts of the actor...
...noted by Author Chase himself. Will it be politically possible to keep taxes sky-high in fat years, as they must be kept to lay away a cushion for the lean? Mr. Chase is not sure. Practically any politician could set his mind at rest instantly with the obvious answer: No. "Americans," he writes, "traditionally regard taxes as a burden and a waste, if not an outrage. . . . They will have to change their ideas and begin to think about taxes the way they have been taught to think about insurance. You pay now in order to avoid calamity later...
...murder of an ATS private who had been partly undressed, beaten after a drunken dance. The case heightened the concern of many Britons for their women.† Pride & Poverty. These items were significant only as symptoms of a state of mind. In recent months it has become increasingly obvious that the people of Britain are annoyed by the free-spending, free-loving, free-speaking U.S. troops. Worn by a long war, already crowded on an island that is about the size of Oregon with more than 40 times its population, the British are understandably short of temper...
...gesture had true sweep, high photogenic quality (see cut), and was generally conceded to be the most striking cultural event in the Metropolitan since Lawyer Richard Knight's historic cartwheel in the same room (TIME, Dec. 11, 1939)From the Met's first week it seemed obvious that Manhattan's third wartime opera season was going to sound very much like, and sell even better than, its second. Every performance (reflecting the current boom in Manhattan show business) was a sellout. Many foreign singers would continue to be missed. Only new singer to raise a ripple...