Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be obvious that you are reporting on the state of the world in picture as well as in type. ... In your . . . letters to the editor [TIME, Oct. 6] you note the sorry plight of Britain's Prime Minister, who is going in one direction while his hat travels in another...
...girl and a man of the type supposedly indigenous to the acting profession, the middle-aged egocentric. Complications are provided by the actor's mistress and his godson a "boy next door" kind of character. Mr. Herbert, who is "no boy next door" himself, gets a good deal of obvious pleasure in awarding the girl to her elder swain...
...Sept. 29], Editor Ed Leech ordered Li'l Abner dropped from the Pittsburgh Press because . . . "we don't think it is good editing or sound citizenship to picture the Senate as an assemblage of crooks . . . and undesirables. In addition the continuity contained a double-meaning statement so obvious that we considered it vulgar...
...such, the presentation of a new parity program now was obvious politicking; no one thought there would be sizable surpluses for years. On the other hand, few thought that the current program would not be continued in some form, no matter how much critics cried out against Government buying of potatoes, eggs, etc. to keep prices high. So the best critics could hope for was an improvement on the current program. Anderson thought his new one was an improvement...
Ever since the talks on Britain's dollar crisis last summer, it had been obvious that the U.S. would eventually have to pick up the check for the cost of victory over Germany. Last week in Washington, ten flight-weary British experts told the U.S. that the time had come. The U.S. would now have to put up at least 80% of the $700-800 million annual bill for feeding and rebuilding the combined occupation zones...