Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrorist tactics of the Irish Republican Army. Without referring directly to her own close call last Oct. 12, when an I.R.A. bomb ripped through the Brighton hotel where she was staying, the British leader warned that Americans should not "be misled into making contributions to seemingly innocuous groups," an obvious reference to the Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID), a U.S. organization with suspected links to the I.R.A...
There are some obvious factors behind the record--like youth (six freshmen) and road troubles (where Harvard is 0-12)--but there has to be a more specific reason...
...does one capitalize of such an unexpected success? Mark Twain followed Tom Sawver with a slew of spin-offs, some, like Huckleberry Finn, classics in their own right: others, like Tom Sawyer, Detective, obvious efforts to keep the Clemens' larder well-stocked at a minimum of effort...
...minutes before Kim's plane arrived." The South Koreans are highly security conscious, all the more so since the 1983 incident in Rangoon, Burma, when several South Korean Cabinet ministers were killed by a bomb supposedly set by agents from Communist North Korea. Added to that was the guards' obvious animosity toward Kim. Explaining that Kim would not be passing through a VIP area at the airport, one agent told reporters bluntly...
...taste, Presto. You have concocted Fast Forward, this month's feeble effort at capturing on screen the ambitions and frustrations of those crary, but immensely talented, kids just have to dance. The only prestige that Director Sidney Poitier lends the film is his name in the credits. It becomes obvious, however, that it is not enough merely to import a big name to ensure cinematic success...