Word: manifeste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Douglas MacArthur it seemed scarcely strange that his life should have come full circle. Last year, trying to explain to a reporter how he felt about the Philippines, he roared: "When George Dewey sailed into Manila Bay on May 1, 1898 it was Manifest Destiny working itself out. By God, it was Destiny that brought me here! It was Destiny...
...This has meant the most tremendous sort of dislocations in both domestic and international political and social relations. It has meant in home affairs that the socialist planning idea has grown to such an extent that New Dealism has realized many of its aims. In international affairs it is manifest in the breakdown of export-industrialism and free trade. Not only is this true in Germany where the ultimate solution was war for living room, but also in England where the Ottawa Agreements and the whole postwar tariff system signified a desperate resort to self-sufficiency...
...take a convincing stand against Nazi doctrines, nor against Fascism in general. Their sense of the historic present is so feeble that they can submit to doing Hitler's work in the United States--which is precisely what that are doing. In the course of this curious, but manifest activity, they have the effrontery to say that those who realize that compromise with Nazism is physically impossible "have failed to state their peace aims." I have never had profound respect for semantics as a cult, but I marvel that it's devotees do not come to grips with...
...nominees for the office, they triumphantly declared, and no legal way to name any. That a city of 1,014,128 registered voters could hold a write-in election and "select a Mayor by such a plurality or majority as will fairly express the public will is a manifest absurdity." When the application of a law is manifestly absurd, the law should be invalidated. The Court cited many a legal authority, for that principle. Among them: Samuel von Pufendorf...
Since the turn of the century, however, all ventures outside the bounds of the U.S. had acquired a bad name. By 1939 the imperialism ("Manifest Destiny") of 1898 had been long regarded as a pain in the bowels and conscience of the U.S. The timid internationalism of World War I was a spinster memory, pressed like a dead flower between the forlorn pages of the League of Nations...