Word: manifeste
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...clothes. Sixtyish, he generally appears in a grey suit with velvet lapels and sports an emerald stickpin in his wide black tie. When a reporter cornered him last week to ask a few questions, Yeats had an all-inclusive answer. "An artist's personality," he said, "should manifest itself in his work. Personally I have always resented any attempt to make copy out of my private life...
...villages and cities of Mexico, men & women gathered last week for memorial masses, speeches, toasts, parades, Mexicans were honoring their defenders against the U.S., which, just 100 years ago, invaded the country in the name of "manifest destiny." The highest tributes were reserved for Los Niñs Heroes-the five teen-age cadets and their instructor who (legend says) threw themselves over the cliff at Chapultepec Castle rather than surrender to General Winfield Scott's U.S. troops in the war's climactic battle...
...excitable Colombian press had an anti-U.S. field day. El Tiempo talked of a "bad neighbor" policy, dredged up such old standbys as "dollar diplomacy," "manifest destiny," the "big stick." El Espectador accused the U.S. of "economic aggression." The reason for the uproar was that the U.S. and Colombia had got themselves tangled in an unseemly row over shipping coffee...
Ideological conflict, manifest in divergent opinions concerning the proper attitude toward, Russia and in the debate between proponents of "planned prosperity" and advocates of "individual initiative," will be sharply outlined at Harvard this fall--especially during the appearance of Henry Wallace...
Already Moose Jaw's ambitious. and wealthy young M.P., Ross Thatcher, was capitalizing noisily on the manifest violation of civil rights. He had protested to Prime Minister Mackenzie King against the attempt to "starve the Japs out of the camp," and had followed with a ringing speech: "Let these Canadians be treated as Canadians by Canadians. Let the Government have the courage to admit a wrong and right...