Word: manifeste
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Other speakers followed. "We want unity," they shouted. "But we admit opposition-only, of course, to the point where it does not manifest itself. That is democracy. . . . For 15 years Ferdinand Lop, as he took off his pants at night, envisaged taking power the next day. Every morning, as he pulled on his socks, he was no closer to holding power. You must admit that such a man with the same idea for 15 years is not normal. That is why we who are normal follow...
Clarence Darrow, dead these eight years, failed for the eighth time to keep an annual appointment. He had promised amateur magician Claude Noble to "manifest himself" if he could. Noble stood on a Chicago bridge from which Barrow's ashes had been scattered, held up a picture, waited for Darrow to knock it out of his hand...
Having fulfilled the nation's new "manifest destiny," in 1899 ships of the U.S. Fleet sailed in triumph into New York Harbor. Cuba had been liberated; the Philippines had been seized. The U.S. had ended its isolation from the world and become a great naval power. Thanks were due to Admiral George Dewey-in whose honor New York City decorated its buildings and declared a two-day holiday-and to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt of the Rough Riders, who had fought horse, foot and dragoon (as prewar Assistant Secretary) to modernize the Navy and make...
Nineteen years later, on a foul winter's day, New York Harbor became the scene of another celebration, when the battleships of the Atlantic Fleet returned, their manifest destiny also fulfilled. The world had been made safe for democracy (folks said) and Woodrow Wilson was off for the Versailles Conference...
...power and our influence. . . ." George Marshall translated this into practical, military terms: "The only effective defense a nation can now maintain is the power of attack." Navymen put it this way: "Our mission is to wage the peace around the world." Not even Theodore Roosevelt had suggested such a manifest destiny. It was a reversal of the traditional U.S. policy -never to attack until attacked - which culminated in the Pearl Harbor disaster and the destruction of Douglas MacArthur's army and air force in the Philippines. It implied a nation ever on the alert, ready to strike before...