Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a preliminary investigation, CAB Chairman James Landis made an obvious preliminary finding: the plane had crashed while going down through the overcast. But why? Pilot error? Instrument failure? CAB inspectors set out for the answer. President Truman appointed a five-member board to study all the recent air accidents. In three weeks, 146 people had died in the flaming wreckage...
...obvious that an old name still worked magic in Ecuador. The man who led the ticket last week was the ex-playboy son of General Leonidas Plaza, twice the country's President and strong man. He was also well known in North America. He had fought bulls in Ecuador, played football at the University of California, sold apples on Manhattan streets when his father cut off his allowance, and shipped as a junior purser with the Grace Line...
...point, see. And I'm mad; you can see that too. But let's hit the more general and dilatory aspects of this epistle. The intentional pass is an example of the great American conscience which us intellectuals are so concerned about. That is obvious as all hell. How can love and temperance come back when men don't have to fight for what they get from providence, be it a base on balls or a woman or a colony. This thing has wide applications, which I want you to investigate. See what you can do for our mothers...
...Yard called in entomology experts of the British Museum. Who might have engineered this stunning crime? The answer was as obvious as cherchez la femme: only a person with a consuming love of lepidoptera. Last week the mystery was cleared up. In a West Ham court, Colin William Wyatt, a handsome, 38-year-old, onetime Cambridge ski champion, confessed all. Why had he done it? While he was in Australia (with the Air Force), his marriage had gone on the rocks. To forget, he had plunged into a hobby he had pursued since...
There was no book of rules for television announcers, and Stanton learned the tricks by trial & error. Before many weeks, he was supplying rules and statistics for bewildered sports fans, ignoring the obvious, calling an occasional play wrong to delight armchair experts, devising a set of silent signals and on-the-air cues for his cameramen and spotters, keeping his commentary at a slow pace so that the cameras could follow without jerky images. His friends helped out by bar-hopping and giving him reports of audience reaction to his sportcasting. For a while, he had an uneasy sensation that...