Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subpoena I received today on the eve of the elections from the Wood-Rankin Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, is an obvious political maneuver to discredit the activities of all independent voters in this election, particularly in the contest between Martha Sharpe and Joseph Martin," Shapley declared when he had seen the subpoena...
...cartoon from the Yale Record . . . amused a great many of us Georgia alumni. On the back of the college official talking to the prospective footballer is written unmistakably "University of Georgia." It is obvious to us why the Yale cartoonist picks on Georgia, although the only difference between the recruiting of athletes at Yale and down south is that Yale has more money to spend, and goes about it more subtly. Yale men long ago founded the University of Georgia. Later, they established a pleasant football relationship, with Yale winning every year. Then beginning in the late '20s, Georgia...
...flowing style he tells how Conant, then president of Harvard University and little known in smoke-filled rooms where men suck cigars and make Presidents, was swept from his palatial office at Cambridge, Mass., and deposited in the White House by a nation "grown weary of obvious inefficiency at Washington; a leaderless people seeking leadership who turned to a man of science in one of the country's dark hours...
Despite bad weather, late meals, the strain of 28 days of almost continuous travel, General Ike always seemed to be enjoying himself. Though it was obvious that he did not court adulation, he seemed unfailingly appreciative of applause and good wishes. When he was given an honorary degree, along with Field Marshal .Viscount Montgomery, at Cambridge, the Public Orator said of him (in Latin): "The truth is he himself showed such an example of kindly wisdom, such a combination of serious purpose, humanity and courtesy that the others soon had no thought in their minds save to labor with...
...Britain the idea of P.W. fraternization no longer seemed so objectionable. In the House of Commons, Tory Martin Lindsay rose to suggest that some P.W.s should even be encouraged to stay and marry. "The advantages in adding to our labor forces thousands of industrious, highly skilled workers would appear obvious," he said, "[besides] there is today in Great Britain a 200,000 surplus of women of marriageable age. I am one of those people who believe that it is a great misfortune for women to be unable to fulfill their biological function because of a shortage of males...