Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early to guess, last week, whether Kenny could beat Earl Warren. But it was obvious that the race would be tense and close and that Kenny would pitch his full share of curves...
...Federal Communications Commission, which operates on the theory that radio is here to stay, last week warned the industry that many listeners might not be. In a 140-page report, FCC told radio that bad programs were losing devotees by droves. Radio's most common and obvious faults: soap operas, too many commercials, allowing the sponsor to have free reign...
...overgenerously credited Irish-Americans with killing the first Jap, sinking the first battleship, carrying out the first FT raid, bagging the first Jap plane, capturing the first German spy, winning the first presidential citation. She left out the anti-Semitic punch line, but her critics said the inference was obvious. She was suspended on charges of intolerance and un-Americanism...
...obvious and partial answer to socialized medicine, Blue Cross has worked well. As memberships increased, benefits have been raised. Some chapters have added plans to prepay doctor bills as well. All that can seemingly stop Blue Cross from snowballing still more is state-controlled medicine...
...comparison was obvious and presumably intended. Just as Bunyan's "Christian" wound up in the City of God, so Hogarth's "Tom Rakewell" awoke from the happy madness of Drury Lane's Rose Tavern to the chains of the miserably insane in Bedlam. The year he died (1763), Hogarth added a final bitter detail to this engraving: a ha'penny stuck against the wall to indicate that Britannia was also an inmate...