Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through an obscuring fog, he arrived shortly after 8 at the grey-walled University Club in downtown Los Angeles. There David Faries had gathered a hundred business & professional men to join him in bacon & eggs and to hear him talk turkey off-the-record. For 45 minutes, to the obvious satisfaction of virtually everyone present, he talked, answering in gutty, he-man language (hells & damns were not infrequent) the questions inspired by the doubts that California Republicans had expressed about Willkie since...
Back at the hotel he held private tête-a-têtes for the rest of the evening before leaving for Sacramento. Not only did Republicans call on him, but Democrats as well. The rising tide of interest in him was obvious. Telephone calls flooded in, keeping his secretary and several volunteers busy. One man called to volunteer to dress himself as Paul Revere and begin riding throughout the Western states until the convention next year...
Last week work was far enough along for the Army to reveal the project. How far the Army had clawed its way into Burma was not disclosed. Also secret was the road's specific destination. But the general direction was obvious: towards the enemy entrenched in northern Burma...
Henry Ford's reasoning-if this is it-is obvious: car buyers may be more interested in getting places than in getting chromium cigaret lighters...
Artistically it was a success. The New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Howard Barlow played Schubert and Wagner to a big, enthusiastic crowd. But the costs in transportation and union wages were so high that it was obvious that a few more such ventures would exhaust all of Boss Petrillo's $250,000. In Chicago, he told the whole story...