Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frau Goebbels, and "I am the only survivor who knows it." It all began, she confided to newshawks, in the summer of 1934. "At that time Frau Goebbels was on bad terms with her husband.. . . Hitler visited her so regularly in her apartment that their relations were obvious. . . . They seemed lost in each other's company, especially when love songs were played. Later, their relations became less intimate. . . ." The child, Frau Meissner said, was born in 1935, grew up as Goebbels' son, died in the Goebbels family suicide. But when it came to proof, all the fluttery...
Spurned by discerning voters were such obvious misnomers as "Lit," "The Blaze," "Sassi," and "Chrysalis." Pines won two tickets to a Boston show, a date with the first feminine subscriber to the magazine, and a free subscription for himself...
...President Maurice Schumann, bolted from their seats toward the speaker in a menacing fashion, shouting insults as they came. Algerian followers of Abbas got ready to join the seemingly inevitable melee as the siren in the corridors shrilled to evacuate the press and public galleries. But, to the obvious relief of President Vincent Auriol, a small army of quickwitted ushers surrounded the menaced speaker and restored order by coaxing Abbas off toward the Communist benches, which greeted him with feeble applause...
...first "comprehensive" Lincoln volume of its kind since 1905-is the University of Arkansas' Roy P. Easier (The Lincoln Legend, etc.). All told, Editor Easier has transcribed, wherever possible from the original sources, some 250 speeches, letters and literary odds & ends. Many of the selections are obvious and familiar (the classic Gettysburg and Second Inaugural addresses, etc.); many are curious, little-known bits-such as Lincoln's grateful testimonial to a corncutter: "Dr. Zachariehas operated on my feet with great success, and considerable addition to my comfort...
...lectures and ordinary bull sessions can find practical application in the polling booths on November 2. This year's electorate has a novel newcomer, the student-voter, who can base his choice upon a maximum of principle and a minimum of self-interest. The important reasons for voting are obvious to all, and newspaper and radio should provide the information necessary for the intelligent voter to decide which levers to pull on election...