Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circle, the continent of Africa, I may say without exaggeration that we cannot under any circumstances, however much we might wish to, remain aloof from the terrible and sanguinary struggle going on in Africa today between five million whites and 200 million Africans. We cannot do so for an obvious and important reason: we are in Africa. The peoples of Africa will continue to look to us, who guard their northern gate and who constitute their link with all the outside world...
Graceful and accurate rendition, rich and brilliant color are the obvious attributes of such work. Children and connoisseurs see in them something more important, a magic, as of make-believe caught in mid-fancy and securely held...
...first big hint came when Truman said caustically: "I have little faith in the value of the bandwagon operation nor in the reliability of polls-political polls." Truman made his decision even more obvious with the words: "I realize that my expression of a choice at this time will cause disappointment in some and may cause resentment in others, but against the mounting crises in the world, I know that this convention must name a man who has the experience and the ability to act as President immediately upon assuming that office, without risking a period of costly and dangerous...
...command of himself and his audience was forceful, sure, and accented by a remarkable candor. Only once did he hesitate-when recalling how he felt after his operation. "You must remember," he said, "I was in . . ." Then, rejecting the next, obvious word-pain-Eisenhower continued with combat-tested detachment: "I was having a pretty rough ride there for two or three days, [but] from that day on, I have improved every day." His insistence on candor took him farther. "Now," he observed wryly, "I feel good," but not as "well as I did a year ago at this time...
Beyond its obvious implication that a Catholic on the ticket would have helped in 1952, Bailey's paper does not attempt to assign reasons for Stevenson's relatively poor showing among Catholics. Few Democrats believe that Stevenson's divorce lost him any substantial number of Catholic votes. But most Catholic Democratic leaders believe that the general charges of Democratic "softness toward Communism" were especially effective among Catholics. Since those charges are sure to be revived in 1956 to a greater or lesser degree, many a Democrat stands with John Bailey in the belief that a Catholic vice...