Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...illiterate populace. After nervous speculation, the plotters approached Crown Prince Asfa Wassan himself, knowing that father and son have disliked each other for years. The Emperor had always favored a younger son Prince Makonnen (who was killed in an automobile accident three years ago), made it obvious that he considered Asfa Wassan none too bright, often subjected him to public humiliation. When Asfa Wassan wishes to speak to his father, he must first grovel with his face in the dirt like any other lowly subject. In August 1959 the Crown Prince agreed to join the conspiracy...
Though the U.S. was little more than a bystander, it was the obvious target of the mobs, partly because it has become the standard target of Latin leftists, partly because anti-U.S. Interior Minister Araújo was pulling some of the strings. At week's end Araújo found he had gone too far, even for Velasco Ibarra, who announced he had accepted his deputy's "resignation." Unfortunately, Araújo's work could not so easily be erased. The biggest gainers in the land squabble were Fidel Castro and Soviet Russia, who guarantee...
...obvious way out was to change the Bolivian divorce law. In prerevolutionary 1949, the tin baron proceeded to do just that. After the Senate gave Patiño what he wanted and it went to the Lower House, an embarrassingly plaintive and highly publicized cable arrived from the princess, arousing the influential Catholic Church and stopping Congress in its tracks. Earlier this year, Patiño tried again, but his efforts were vetoed by President...
...nation's oldest colleges (founded 1696), tiny, coeducational St. John's last year got 1,400 inquiries, could admit only 120 freshmen. It now has 277 students, next year will hit its avowed limit of 300. The obvious demand tempts St. John's to colonize the rest of the U.S.: "We think our kind of education should be offered to more people," Weigle says...
Khrushchev's table-thumping performance at the United Nations is evidence of this return to post-war Stalinism and the rigid division of East and West into two absolutely opposed camps, he claimed. Moscow's inability to do anything but tone down the "obvious crudities" of Chinese policy in the Manifesto is proof that Mao Tse-Tung can intervene successfully in Russia's internal affairs...