Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Montgomery threw his punch. Two British convoys proceeded through Gibraltar unscathed, and it was not until Nov. 7 (the day before North African Dday) that U-boats attacked. As for the U.S. convoy, it was first attacked by U-boats 48 hours after Dday. The richest, most obvious submarine target in history, much of it at sea for weeks, was totally missed by German Intelligence...
...organizations. A witch-hunt indiscriminately pinning the Red label to independent-thinking individuals or magnifying the significance of the neurotic schoolboy Party Liner will only serve to arouse thousands of students across the country in defense of civil liberties. The informed in every stratum of society will surely resist obvious hysteria-shenanigans. Republican leaders are inviting near-unanimous condemnation from intelligent citizens if they throw thought-police methods in the face of American Education...
...years a steady reader and admirer of TIME, I was shocked to read in the last issue [Jan. 27] that "Washington military men thought this might be as good a time as any to buy Greenland, if they could" and I was just as disappointed in your obvious approval of the idea...
...discussion is fuzzy, although the underlying policies of both countries are clear enough. The U.S., realizing that it may not be able to keep indefinitely its head start in the atomic armaments race, wants international control of atomic energy, and takes it as obvious that "control" includes the right to look into all countries and see what they are doing with fissionable material, and to punish them by international action if they break the rules. Until the U.S. Government is sure that control is defined in those terms, the U.S. has no intention of giving up its head start...
...chore boy, Nath Storm (Lon McCallister), learns from his wooden-legged employer (Edward G. Robinson) that the deserted Red House near the farm is strictly taboo. So are the deep woods that surround it. No reasons are given, beyond Farmer Robinson's obvious terror. Nath and the farmer's adopted child (Allene Roberts), thus forbidden, cannot resist trying to find out what it's all about. They are variously hindered by Nath's lush sweetheart (Julie London) and her sinister spare-time boy friend (Rory Calhoun). Their quest for the core of the farmer...