Word: manifeste
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...levelled a specific attack on the United States for its "superior race hypothesis," manifest, he said, in "color-of-skin discrimination...
After MacWilliams' rice load had been shoved out on to the ground, supply troops and a group of Chinese army wives began clambering aboard his plane. The manifest for this trip listed a load of 36 pieces of baggage and 36 soldiers. Forcing his way into the packed cabin, he counted 126 crates, bundles and gunnysacks, and 69 people. MacWilliams shouted for the commanding officer and forced him to toss off half the luggage and cut the number of people to 50. "I'm still 5,000 pounds over," he said as he gunned his engines...
...trends that indicate the shape of tomorrow's Europe and, perhaps, of the world. As for our part in it, mostly it is a job of probing and explaining, trying to get at the facts behind the loose statements, to assess the trends correctly as they first manifest themselves...
...happy; America was in its element. "Give me an ETA* on EC 84 . . . That's flour coming in on EC 72 . . . Roger . . . Ease her down . . . Where the hell has 85 gone? Oh yeah, overhead . . . Wind is now north northwest . . . The next stupid Charlie 47 has nothing on his manifest . . . Are you in charge of putting de-icer fluid in aircraft? Well, who the hell...
...London office thought Shaw's endorsement might be obtained by "a combination of audacity and a large sum of money" ($4,000 was suggested). New York suggested London try "audacity ... leaving the money for him to bring up." Audacity worked. Shaw first repudiated the quote-it was "manifest nonsense," he said, to call Ireland a land of peace-then he composed a substitute...