Word: manifeste
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...born into the world as the heir to a hated name. It was a harsh and heady time, when vast financial empires were rising on the bones of their crushed competition and the U.S. was racing toward its manifest destiny as a world power. No man was richer, more ruthless or less popular than John Davison Rockefeller, the lord of Standard Oil. and no man seemed less qualified to follow him than the shy and sheltered boy who was his namesake. Yet, when he died in a Tucson, Ariz, hospital last week, a frail and tired man of 86, John...
...achievements and waspish attacks on the motives behind Western offers of economic aid. But his theme seemed dated in lands that have been independent for more than ten years. At a banquet in Calcutta he snapped, "I don't think all of you understand us correctly when we manifest a certain hotheadedness against the colonialists. Just as you don't understand us, neither can we understand you Indians. For so many ages you have been oppressed by colonialists, but still it has not awakened in you the strong feelings which inspire us in Russia...
...days later in the mail she got a $37,500 air-travel insurance policy taken out by Al Taylor (divorced but still friendly) at Tampa Airport just before take-off time of the doomed DC-7B. Taylor was missing, although he was not listed on the plane's manifest...
Early in January Spears sent his wife a note and arranged a quiet meeting. They got together at Dallas' Lakewood Hotel, stayed there four days. Then Spears headed back to his desert hideaway. When his host, Turska, heard on a TV program that Spears was on the manifest of the crashed plane but was now believed to be alive, he called his attorney. Attorney's advice: get Spears out of the house and call...
...spite of its manifest and manifold weaknesses, Mr. Edwin Justus Mayer's muddled and misbegotten pastiche persists in being perversely entertaining. Mr. Mayer has attempted something so vast and fascinating that even in its failure, shadows of success can be seen intermittently dancing: cleverness shadowing forth brilliance, and excitement grandeur...