Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, Leo Allen's Rules Committee had kept the draft bill from the House floor, in the obvious hope that it would be lost or badly mauled in the closing rush. Last week, with the bill on the floor at last, the House did its best to oblige. An ill-assorted alliance of the far left and far right leaped in with knives flourishing. New York's Communist-line Vito Marcantonio and left-wing Leo Isacson joined forces with Mississippi's ranting John E. Rankin and Michigan's Paul Shafer...
...since he finished a one-year internship in 1916. One PHS man cracked of the new bill: "Well, they didn't say a man 5 feet 7 inches tall with a mustache [see cut'], who was a graduate of Georgetown . . . That would have been a little too obvious...
...Considering the autocratic nature of the Arab states ruled by Abdullah and his partners in perfidy, the obvious democratic nature of Israel, the still-standing decision of the United Nations in favor of partition, the undisguised aggression of the Arab states into Palestine, and TIME's espousal of democratic causes and hatred of aggressors, don't you think a cover featuring the President of the new democratic state of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, would have been more fitting...
...likely to see. Nevertheless, a good deal which would be as taut and resonant as a drumhead on the stage is relatively dull and slack on the screen. On the other hand, those who made the picture have given it something very rare. It's obvious that they love the play and their work in it, and their affection and enjoyment are highly contagious. They have done so handsomely by Saroyan that in the long run everything depends on how much of Saroyan you can take...
...Deprive" would be possible, proceeding on this hypothesis: conform to, liken to, prior to, oblivious to, but deprive of ... The reason for selecting "adjacent" completely eludes me. A misprint, a bad question, or are we "oblivious" to something quite obvious...