Word: manifests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iron Mike's Domain. Few men understand the problems and profit of this kind of U.S. manifest destiny better than the short (5 ft. 8 in.), bald, square-jawed chairman and chief executive of the world's biggest oil company, Standard Oil of New Jersey.*He is 63-year-old Michael Lawrence Haider (rhymes with strider), and he views the world from a 29th-floor office in midtown Manhattan's RCA Building...
...addition, McCarthy said, "there is growing evidence of a deepening moral crisis in America-discontent and frustration and a disposition to take extralegal if not illegal actions to manifest protest. I am hopeful that this challenge may alleviate at least in some degree this sense of political helplessness and restore to many people a belief in the processes of American politics and of American government...
...Release. The change in his own view was manifest. In June 1966, after the U.S. attacked oil dumps around Hanoi and Haiphong, McNamara predicted "a lower ceiling on the number of men that can be supported in the South." By the following January, he was telling Congress: "I don't believe that the bombing up to the present has significantly reduced-nor any bombing that I could contemplate in the future would seriously reduce-the actual flow of men and materiel to the South...
Prayer is manifest in Ward 4, especially on the Irish blocks, where it is framed and hung on the wall. "Visit this habitation, we beseech thee O Lord, and protect us from the snares of our enemy." The homes with prayers in the alcove are likely to contain suspicious inhabitants who quickly close the door with, "I'm not interested," or "I've read all about the war," or "My husband's out now, but when he gets back he'll tell me how to vote...
...think that certain groups of undergraduates have been forced to carry an unfair share of the penalties. On the other hand, the punishments themselves are vary much lighter than I had anticipated up until the very last moment. Furthermore, appeal procedures exist that may be able to correct manifest injustices. Thought the character of the punishment is indeed important, it is even more important to try to perceive and assess the situation in which we all find ourselves. It is on this score that I would like to offer some personal observations...