Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sarcastic statements in the article, TIME gave a truer, less prejudiced account of Vatican politics and policies than one would expect from many secular publications. Undoubtedly, TIME knew the article would bring many letters of condemnation from bigoted, intolerant anti-Catholics who shut their eyes to the obvious sense of the Papacy's position on social issues which TIME summarized brilliantly. (Everyone but the most anti anti-Catholics will admit that the papal assertions on social issues must underlie any permanent peace.) However, this is what I would expect from TIME: a fearless, unprejudiced representation of the truth. REDMOND...
Texas-tall, balding, FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly made the obvious observation: "FCC is being tried in the newspapers." He had pretty good proof that the Committee planned it that way: a July 7 memo from the counsel to Cox Committee members outlining the most effective procedure...
Airlines publicity men ballyhooed the event, without making the obvious point that such transportation, while necessary, is uneconomical by modern (but strictly military) aircraft standards. But airmen agreed that American had something, anyhow. At war's end, the airlines will get plenty of planes (like the new Curtiss Commando and the four-motored Douglas C-54) which are now doing a reasonably economical job of lugging cargo for the armed services. Meanwhile American's men will get freighting experience...
Most front-rank portraitists look down their noses at painting from photographs, but Baker-faced with the obvious impossibility of getting a busy air marshal in England to sit for his portrait one week and Lord Wavell in India the next-has made a virtue of necessity and developed such an effective new technique that The American Artist says his TIME covers are creating "a sensation in artistic circles...
...this recitation of the most obvious facts, the report added a harsh indictment: prime responsibility for the riot lay at the door of the Negro leaders and the Negro press. Said the report: "Perhaps tension in Detroit is the positive exhortation by many so-called Negro leaders to be militant in the struggle for racial equality. . . . [Negro] newspapers repeatedly charge that there is no more democracy here than in Hitler's Europe or in Japan . . . the obvious purpose of which is to drive home to Negro readers the alleged fact of their servitude and to arouse a belligerent reaction...