Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three ministers conferred through interpreters, called in the various experts of the staffs as they needed them. To the first full-length session Hull and Eden took their military advisers, respectively Major General John R. Deane and Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, thereby leading correspondents to the solemn, if obvious, conclusion that matters of military consequence stood high on the agenda. After some delay the Russians disclosed that Molotov was being advised by no lesser personages than Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov and onetime Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the U.S. Maxim Litvinoff...
...Franklin Roosevelt, often at his best when tired, fashioned one of his most newsy conferences in months. He took obvious delight in his new decision to act as war reporter to the American people-although, as it turned out, he did not have much specific military news to give...
Dearborn stressed the fact that the Clinic does not take obvious cases but prefers its subjects to be "tough problems." Although not in essence a service organization, the Clinic does not demand large fees for the instruction and guidance it furnished cases that come into its charge
...organize and train the NBC Symphony. Last spring Rodzinski got ready for his New York job by suddenly firing or pensioning 17 of the Philharmonic's most important musicians (including Concertmaster Mishel Piastre and practically every soloist in the brass and reed sections). It was obvious that the orchestra was in for a complete overhaul...
Benny's ad-libbing ability was obvious to most of his soldier audiences on his recent 32,000-mile U.S.O. tour. But not a single top-rank U.S. comedian could get by for long without his stable of gagmen. The comic demands of regular radio appearances are too heavy for one man's wits. This fact confronted U.S.O. with a traffic problem when it decided to transport U.S. comedians abroad to entertain the troops. The gagmen would have made just so much extra baggage...