Word: manifeste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have offered to teach him how. Self-consciously modest, yet with a touch of the fire-&-brimstone revivalist, he refuses to be rushed. Says he: "Up until the past year I felt more like a cheerleader than a choral director. Dawgonnit! I don't feel I have any manifest destiny...
...Class Oration, by John W. Sullivan '43, scheduled for the Class Day exercises on Saturday, will be on the subject "The Temptation of Destiny and America's Manifest Duty," it was revealed last night...
...free and equal nations, either inside or outside the tenuous bonds of the British Commonwealth. The development of Indian self-government has been clearly denned British policy since 1917. In 1929 it was clearly stated by the British Government that Dominion status within the Empire was India's manifest destiny, a free and equal partnership with the other self-government Dominions. India could have had such status for the taking in 1935. She has recently been promised self-determination after the war, either inside the Commonwealth or not as she wishes...
...made stupid promises to Louis and Conn. Example: The sportswriters were told that a representative of the War Department had promised Louis that his debts would be cleaned up if he fought, and even that his back income tax of $117,000 would be paid up-the latter a manifest impossibility, since he must pay heavy Treasury taxes on any new lump sums he now earned. Not many tears fell. Millions, had wanted to know whether the young Irish sharpshooter could cut down the great Bomber. Only a few of the more emotional sportswriters bled much in print...
...being able to quote both the chief candidates on their determination to keep the country out of war-if possible. The correspondents, says Mr. Moore, accepted the statement, ignored the qualification. And in Tokyo the army and navy gladly did the same, pushing on to the fulfillment of their "Manifest Destiny." Foreign Minister Matsuoka was at hand to assure the Japanese Cabinet that "many millions of Americans of German descent would rally to the support of the opponents of President Roosevelt's policies." Behind Matsuoka in Tokyo stood a host of Nazi agents feeding him distorted evidence...