Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article on our muralist and human-flesh-fancier Diego Rivera is light, bright and gaudy. As entertainment-Trotsky, Paulette Goddard and canard faisande-it is superb. As a serious study on a very good painter who is never as great as you estimate him, it is lame, superficial, obvious, and in some aspects, totally false...
...This is the core of as tense and exciting a situation as can be imagined and, for obvious reasons, to derive full value from the material it became desirable actually to produce the picture in London and, if possible, with the cooperation of the Brigade of Guards. Because of the nature of the material, we anticipated a cold refusal by the latter. To our surprise, full consent was given with certain stipulations that were readily accepted by us ... As one result of the Guards' participation in making the film, our Conspirator audiences will see a famous Guards' regiment...
...millstones of the presidency had changed Harry Truman in many ways; they had sharpened his temper, given him poise, an almost cocky assurance, and a deep faith in his own destiny. But last week, as he observed the fourth anniversary of his first day in office, it was obvious that nothing had altered the President's Missouri flavor, his small-town neighborliness, or his appetite for homely jollity...
...they were all tried-the big, obvious criminals and the men who could argue with some justice that they had only obeyed orders.* According to their lights, the victors had done their best to mete out justice...
...Abbot does not hold that earthly temperature changes are directly geared to these solar variations. But he is sure that both follow the same cycle. This, says he, "is so strikingly obvious . . . that no one could doubt that it is both real and a major element in weather." To prove his point, he made a forecast at the beginning of 1948. His prediction named the 55 dates on which his solar cycles would begin, and stated that on those days the temperature in Washington would probably be below normal. In between those days, the temperature would rise by an average...