Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Readers. ". . . There is the obvious fact that for every reader who really knows how to read and also consciously wants to buy ideas, there are ten who simply want to be amused...
...would seem obvious that these political emigres, for whom return to the Soviet Union would mean extermination, are entitled to sympathy, support, and protection on the part of the democratic world," the letter said...
...obvious interest in all the people, his careful preparation for every battle and his willingness to stick his neck out have finally won him the respect of some of his old enemies. Wrote the New RePublic's Washington columnist, T.R.B.: "Tactless, humorless and almost incapable of dissimulation, Taft is, to our mind, also diligent and courageous. His willingness to assume responsibility is poles away from those former G.O.P. New Deal critics who were merely willing to attack...
...meeting, in defeated Germany, of bored G.I.s, wary D.P.s and diehard SS men supplies obvious possibilities for an adventure story, and this one makes the most of them. Author Millar, 35, fought with the British in Egypt, with the Maquis in France, and wrote two exciting autobiographical books about it (Waiting in the Night, Horned Pigeon). His first novel, and his third book to be published in the U.S. in the past year, packs all its action and reflection into one week in May 1945, in a secluded Austrian valley -less than a week after...
...burden via higher exemptions, or by providing for larger percentage tax reductions in the lower brackets. The former course has been advocated by Representative Engel, who urged that exemptions be doubled. As yet, no Congressman has argued for a graduated cut, but its political advantages are so obvious and its economic implications so easily defensible that someone is certain to crop up with the idea before the argument becomes much warmer. With the GOP in power, some sort of tax relief is in the cards; the main job new consists in fixing a wary eye on the dealer...