Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd" What force?" What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless, "nonsense", on the one hand; "doubtless", "obvious", "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that...
...seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a ten page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
...nominations for 1984 included the obvious, Ronald Reagan, who has been Man of the Year twice, and such makers of major news as Jose Napoleon Duarte, Geraldine Ferraro and the terrorist. TIME's readers, as ever, weighed in with dozens of candidates in hundreds of letters. In the end the editors chose Peter Ueberroth, impresario of the hugely successful Summer Olympics, because they saw in him the embodiment of the entrepreneurial spirit that is flourishing...
...civilian defense-industry expert from Leningrad, might replace Ustinov. Instead the post went to Marshal Sergei Sokolov, the First Deputy Defense Minister, who at 73 is the oldest man ever appointed to the job. As one Western diplomat in Moscow noted, the Kremlin opted "for the safe and the obvious...
...youngest radio repairman in Far Rockaway, an oceanside community on New York's Long Island. The gifted problem solver breezed through high school math and went on to stir up M.I.T. and Princeton, where the inverse proportion between his mental capacities and his social skills soon became obvious. The book's title is taken from the dean's wife's remark after she asked the young graduate student if he wanted cream or lemon in his tea, and he answered, "Both...