Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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October Rain. But did any campaign ever have a decisive effect in a race which seemed over before it began? This was not the first time that question had been raised. It had been brought up in 1936, when it was obvious from the outset that no Republican could hope to unhorse Franklin Roosevelt. It had been brought up even earlier, when Calvin Coolidge walked away with the 1924 election by sitting on a single pre-campaign pronouncement: "I am for economy. After that I am for more economy...
That was where Earl Warren fitted into Republican strategy for 1948. He brought some obvious political advantages to any party ticket: his straightforward, reassuring personality, his home in a key state, his handsome family, his undeniable success at the polls. In a campaign designed to reassure the voters, he was the living, beaming embodiment of reassurance...
...Berlin issue in Berlin, Germany's military governors passed the problem back to Moscow. For the eleventh time, the Western envoys went to call on Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. The Russians had agreed "in principle" to lift the Berlin blockade; in practice, they refused to budge. It was obvious by now that the Russians were merely carrying on what T. S. Eliot once called "a tedious argument of insidious intent...
...ride and laugh and drink and play and suffer with the famous commander ... I was to know love, intimately. And I was to know, just as intimately, the unspeakable pain of losing my lover in battle . . ."t Her job was, she knew, an enviable one -"An obvious side door to the Supreme Commander's mental apartment." But it had its unpleasant features: "There were some ridiculous (though hurtful) smears on my reputation." To clear up the record, Kay announced, she was "peeling off my traditional British reserve and stripping down to naked truth...
Bostonians were not surprised to see the Red Sox leading their league. In Slugger Ted Williams (batting .367) and other stars, the Sox had plenty of obvious talent. Manager Joe McCarthy, though new to the team this year (TIME, Aug. 9), had brought them along beautifully. But what really pleased Boston was the performance of the unglamorous Braves, who have not captured the flag since 1914. What was the secret of the 1948 Braves? Puzzled fans decided it must be the same factor that had put the Sox out in front, only more so -a manager...