Word: manifests
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Throughout her history Canada has struggled with the U.S. to preserve her national identity. Canadians regard the 19th century as a period of heroic resistance, when every year brought a new American attempt to achieve manifest destiny in the North. But at the start of the 20th century, the nature of the struggle changed. Americans began to see Canada as a market for manufactured goods and a supplier of raw materials, no longer simply as a source of new territory...
...artists around him, Poussin stripped his paintings down to cool, hard, brightly colored figures gesturing like stagecraft as he recounted his fables. The narrative content of his art instantly made him a mentor for dull academic followers who found cartooning easier than esthetics. But he alone knew how to manifest the inward emotions of his mythical people in outward physical postures. While Narcissus, for example, gazes in the rapturous vanity of youth at his own reflection in a pool, his forgotten lover Echo, is depicted in ashen tones and fuzzy contours, as if evaporating from neglect...
Criminal Government. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit could not have disagreed more strongly. Speaking for that unanimous court, Judge Simon Sobeloff (former U.S. Solicitor General) pointed out that the Baltimore police "repentance" occurred well after it became "manifest" that the Veneys had skipped town. (The FBI eventually nabbed them in New York.) Unlike Judge Thomsen, Sobeloff was unmoved by the cops' self-policing order. "The determination of what constitutes probable cause," he said, "is still left to the policeman...
...struggle, Pye said, will probably do great damage to the Chinese society and in the beginning it will probably manifest itself through intensified Maoist policies. It is inconceivable that anyone will be able to challenge the great Maoist tradition in the near future, Pye said, but this rigid period is not apt to be very extended...
...Moser of the Army Medical Corps told a Palo Alto, Calif., symposium on "Diseases of Medical Progress": "We are inclined to forget that the drug is also in contact with other tissues. Effects in those areas are not immediately evident: subtle influences may be at work and may become manifest only later." Such long-range effects, Dr. Moser warned, may never be traced to the drug that caused them. "This is a shadow world of pathophysiology, where relation of cause to effect is at best diffi cult to assess...