Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question should be asked Khrushchev: How does he propose to keep Eastern Europe under Soviet domination simultaneously with total disarmament? It is quite obvious that these two policies are inconsistent...
There was another problem that might have even more bearing on international relationships: to anyone willing to accept obvious facts, the U.S.S.R. has far outstripped the U.S. in the reach for space. President Eisenhower has seemed remarkably unconcerned about the U.S. lag, but the fact remains that, as a man who has spent his entire career in meeting heavy responsibilities, it is his plain and pressing responsibility to see to it that the U.S. gets humping in its space programs...
Courteous but Unchanged. That was not Nikita Khrushchev's thinking. Wending his leisurely way back to Moscow from Peking last week, Russia's boss, with obvious satisfaction, declared that summit talks will "evidently be held this fall or winter...
...enforce an order, the most desirable kind, said Dr. Kenward, is to turn the misbehavior itself into a weapon. A girl who likes neat clothes but refuses to hang them up will eventually get tired of wearing wrinkled dresses. If a child steals, he must make restitution. Next obvious stage in punishment is depriving the child of privileges...
...many girls on the string that she can hardly get a call on the line. She complains to the phone company. Rock suavely assures the investigator, a young woman, that "I've never had any complaints before," and proceeds to demonstrate the reason why-to her obvious satisfaction. He then rings up the decorator and accuses her of listening in on his love life because she has none of her own. But not long after that, Rock gets a look at the "sour old maid" he has been scolding. As the camera sneaks up behind the squirming heroine...