Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage, Historicus for convenience labels any of the theory Stalin consistently quotes as Stalin's theory.* All of Historicus' argument is based on Stalin's words, with Stalin's emphasis, not on the words of Marx or Lenin, except where Stalin repeats them with obvious approval...
Ever since Madame Chiang had arrived in the U.S., it had been obvious that her mission was going badly. She was the guest of Mrs. George Marshall at Leesburg, Va., and had twice gone to Walter Reed Hospital to see the Secretary of State. But, as far as anyone knew, her old friend George Marshall had held to his stern decision that there was nothing more which the U.S. could or should do to help China now-a decision reinforced by the fact that Chinese Nationalists had surrendered 236,000 rifles, 14,000 machine guns and 26,000 tommy guns...
...Franco seemed to be more firmly in the saddle than ever. Organized opposition had been largely obliterated. The most obvious, evidences that Spain is not a free country are the absence of criticism in the press, and the ubiquity of the army, which is the main prop of the regime. Spain has 350,000 to 400,000 well-fed, well-treated soldiers under arms, and if the need arose she could send a million trained men to battle, though with poor and insufficient weapons...
...Director. Producer-Director Litvak, a strong believer in psychoanalysis, tells his story with great simplicity and sympathy. There are times when the simplicity verges on the obvious. But his best scenes are superb. The finest, based mostly on Litvak's observations in the asylums he visited, is laid in the "disturbed" ward. There, amid the weirdly unrestrained babble, the camera makes its way from figure to figure: the girl who slinkily dances about in a pathetic imitation of an evening gown, the woman crouched praying on the floor, the girl with the Ana Pauker haircut pleading "in the name...
...Lexicographer H. L. Mencken* took a long look at the developing language of television. Like other barbaric dialects, Mencken found, it includes many borrowings from earlier cultures (theater, movies, radio); and TV's own coinages, as reported by Variety and assorted philologers, seemed to consist largely of the obvious, like ike for iconoscope. Other samples of current video verbiage given by Mencken...