Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zone, 100 prints and drawings of the poor, the sick, the starved and the dead went on view. Done by the late German Socialist Käthe Kollwitz (TIME, Dec. 3) and damned by the Nazis, they were mostly about Germany after World War I. But many had an obvious application to the present...
Stalin's return from Sochi was the conference turning-point. Suntanned and rested after his 68-day holiday, he had long separate sessions with Bevin and Byrnes. Soon afterwards the conference developed an obvious feeling of buoyancy, previously missing. Once more, apparently, Stalin had proved himself the only Russian who can make quick decisions. But if the log jam had been broken, the drive was still a long way from smooth water...
...court agreed with Pullman that the roads should be picked from the four bidders* because they "are the natural and obvious people to be in the sleeping-car business." To ward off danger of a new monopoly replacing the old, the court ruled that: 1) there must be no interlocking directorates among the roads and Pullman; 2) the Pullman service-and the individual roads-must buy new sleeping cars by competitive bidding...
...picture's production tricks are obvious enough but very effective: no one ever moves without glancing back over his shoulder; the camera eye blurs with rage as Powell's fists beat & beat at the villain's face; the screen goes black while the hero fumbles about in a dark room ; two characters hold an important conversation near a subway track so that nearly every sentence is suspensefully interrupted by the roar of a passing train...
Pointing to the obvious advantages of a location so close to the Houses, Saise suggested that the bell hanging in the belfry atop one end off the present architectural antiquity continue its function on the new library as a fire and general emergency warning...