Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standards to be applied for disloyalty tests include such obvious items as sabotage, espionage, treason, or advocacy of revolution. The gimmick is in the specification designed to catch the Communists: "Membership in, affiliation with or sympathetic association with any foreign or domestic organization . . . designated by the Attorney General as totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive...
...obvious way to find an apartment is to call a real-estate agent-anywhere but in Rio, that is. Agents here can't find apartments and they firmly refuse new business. So you read advertisements, spot something, find a cab-if you can-and speed to it. After weeks of that sort of searching you become gun-shy. Why? Because "furnished" apartments are that in name only...
...security of the nation. This widespread discrimination in the hands of an over-zealous or personally ambitious officer could easily result in the practical exclusion of free thought in government circles. A program advocating the investigation of every employee's soul as well as his affiliations transcends the obvious limits of national security by its susceptibility to vicious abuse and weakens an important safeguard to democratic rights...
...mean by "the church"? Speaking before the Chicago Church Federation, TIME & LIFE Editor Henry Robinson Luce joined the growing ranks of Protestants who are raising this pertinent question. This week, the Christian Century published Layman Luce's speech. Excerpts: , "Between us and the early church is the obvious difference that we Christians have become a great thing in the world. They were the leaven in the lump; we have become the lump. ... If today the laws of human society are not in conformity with the will of God, we cannot say that it is because God has not given...
...truism that the fattest U.S. publishers' prizes go to poor novels. Resting firmly in this tradition, Black Fountains has won its author $20,000 and the publicity tub-thumping that is sure to go with it. The business, if not the literary, reasons for its selection seem fairly obvious. It is an "inside" novel about Japan from 1938 to 1945, and it has a Japanese heroine who is both "modern" and curvy...