Word: manifestants
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...quarrel with the old-style comic like Mr. & Mrs., The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, and he seems to have a sneak ing admiration for Li'l Abner ("sexy and synthetic pastoralism" done with "manifest cleverness.") But, he says, "there seems to be nothing in the good comics which keeps readers from liking the others." He saves his sharpest slings for Superman's female counterpart, a four-year-old character named Wonder Woman, who is described by her creator as "the girl from Paradise Isle, beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, stronger than Hercules and swifter than Mercury." Wonder Woman...
...welled in his eyes and euphemisms from his lips as he spoke not of defeat or surrender but of "cessation of hostilities . . . termination of the war . . . extraordinary measure. . . ." His command to his subjects: "remain cool, maintain self-composure, exercise patience and circumspection . . . win the confidence of the world . . . make manifest the innate glory of Japan's national policy...
...there was a reason for the meeting, a reason implicit in the origins, life and particularly the currently manifest destiny of the President's guest...
...world: the collection of ancient Indian scriptures called the Vedas. The common basis of India's many religious sects, it teaches the fundamental sameness of all religion. Its basic tenets are: 1) that man's inner nature is divine; 2) that his purpose on earth is to manifest this eternally hidden divinity; 3) that truth is universal...
Three Southern Senators not noted for their broad view of the world last week began to feel the inward stirrings of manifest destiny...