Word: manifested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hazards of armies of occupation ... they have yet to manifest their diabolical influence on World War II veterans ..." is a specious evasion of the issue and an appeal to pseudo-patriotic emotionalism. Peace-time army VD rates were 37 times that of similar age-groups in college. Veterans Administration disability payments do not apply to ex-trainees. The casualty rate in modern military training is 2%; 16,000 casualties out of 800,000 UMT draftees, who may never be needed in combat...
...hazards of armies of occupation--whatever they are--they have yet to manifest their diabolical influence on World War II veterans, and they probably never will...
...that point, many Americans were caught up in the great muscle-flexing passion of Manifest Destiny. They heard Indiana's Senator Albert J. Beveridge cry: '''God did not make the American people the mightiest' human force of all time simply to feed and die ... He has made us the lords of civilization . . . The Philippines are ours forever." They heard President McKinley trying to set his own mind straight: "When ... I realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps, I confess I did not know what to do with them ... I went down...
Home would be a place "where you can see all the treasures of the house at one view ... at once kitchen, pantry, parlor, chamber, storehouse and garret ... A house whose inside is as open and manifest as a bird's nest. . . where to be a guest is to be presented with the freedom of the house, and not to be carefully excluded from seven-eighths of it, shut up in a particular cell and told to make yourself at home there-in solitary confinement...
Yale's ingratitude began to manifest itself more obviously in the middle of the 18th century, when, by stoutly defending the stern Calvinism of Edwards, it succeeded in attracting students whose parents were growing suspicious of Harvard's increasing "liberalism." Harvard, by this time had abandoned the custom of flogging students for college offenses...