Word: manifeste
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...Lunts to live in sin together than in the utmost respectability apart. Throughout the evening, they offer slightly grander and more empedestaled versions of their time-honored selves; and by now, indeed, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are much less actors than roles. Now, once again, they manifest their uniqueness. She provides a heraldic squeal or purr; he drops to a sudden flawless guttural pianissimo; each not merely throws away a line, but throws it, with a double backward flip, over an exiting left shoulder...
ACROSS the wind-blown plains of eastern Washington, up through the cool, forested hills of northern-Idaho and the mountains and finger valleys of western Montana, men talk in frontier terms of manifest destiny, and call their northwest U.S. land an Inland Empire. It is a towering land, with long, lonely reaches and stupendous, high-country scenery, proud, self-assured and close to its pioneer beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket...
...repugnant term. The New Deal was credited with power and irrigation, the colossus of Grand Coulee bringing alive Hanford's atomic energy plant, mushrooming cities, drawing industry and providing water for empty land. Today, in an empire lacking private local capital to meet the increasing dreams of manifest destiny, federal help still looms large, and U.S.-financed works find vigorous support even from otherwise conservative Republicans. Item: for 35 years, following the same trail over which the Lewis and Clark Expedition first entered the country in 1805, Idaho has tried to complete a new, direct highway across the precipitous...
...absence of basic information is particularly noticeable in the fields of literature and history. Instead of being concentrated, channeled, continually kept aware of that 'spiritual duration' which is manifest in the evolution of thought, the attention roams distractedly and fails to grasp the unity of culture: only scattered components remain in the mind-ruins, one might almost say. At best, when the youthful mind strives to connect these disjecta membra without having in its possession the means necessary to resurrect them-the historical sequence, the sense of time, the network of causal relations-the student...
Furtive Voyage. Listed on the manifest as "steel rods, optical glass and laboratory supplies," the arms, in 15,000 cases, were loaded on the freighter Alfhem in the Baltic port of Stettin, now a part of Poland. Once through the Skagerrak and out of the foggy Baltic, the vessel acted like a ship carrying hot cargo. First she laid a course south for Dakar, French West Africa, but radioed orders changed the destination to Curaçao, in the Dutch West Indies. Nearing Curaçao, the Alfhem was again diverted, this time to Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Finally the ship...