Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When you drive into this small Southern town, it's pretty obvious that you're entering Tiger territory--every 10 yards there is an orange pawprint painted on the road...
...area nicknamed "The Pit." On a given Friday night, more than 20 skins flock to The Pit. At first glance they look like any other fringe social group. Punks, metalheads, skins--one would think they're all the same, but, according to the skinheads, the differences are obvious...
Asked to analyze what went wrong, the official said, "Look, it's obvious that we are in an end game" with the Soviets as the time for treaty-signing draws near...
...best thing about the book is the endless procession of anecdotes--some true, some apocryphal, and some obvious tall tales. Hear Bobby Riggs bitch and whine his way into psyching-out tennis champ Margaret Court. See Minnesota Fats make a winning pool shot a split-second before the floorboards buckle underneath him and he falls into his basement...
...have a drinking problem. Everything in our increasingly narrow world, though, was a problem that required drinking: the wife, the kids, the boss, the government. In dingy watering holes from which everyone with a healthy life to lead had gone home, we conspired to overlook the obvious, that our bodily cells were addicted, and our minds were along for the ride...