Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chamber of Deputies necessary to override an adverse vote by the Council. The Qucille regime has been fighting hard, and will undoubtedly go on fighting, but the odds are against it. And the odds are definitely for the de Gaullists, even in a country where political risks are manifold...
...lightning victory. We realize that we are the ones who will be manning the ships and the guns and facing the bombs and destruction of the enemy . . . We sincerely believe that we will be able to win our war . . . Then we will be the ones to face the manifold problems of establishing a just and honest and stable peace. We believe ourselves capable of accomplishing what our fathers failed to achieve. We have starry-eyed and idealistic hopes of a peace not just in our sons' time, but for all time . . ." (December...
...whole the President's report is a calm, rational, long-range approach to the University and its manifold problems. And that is all that it should be; that is what good leadership should always be doing in times of stress which may induce short-sightedness in the less able...
Despite the manifold dangers he describes, Wittenberg emphasizes that they should hot frighten any newsman into doing less than his job. And he repeats what every good reporter knows: "The [provable] truth [in the U.S.] is ... an absolute defense to a civil action for libel...
Kafka has also been called a theological writer, a philosophical writer, a Zionist, a Freudian, a bitter social critic, a Kafkaist. Plain readers may brush aside the tags. For them two facts are important: 1) to express the manifold, intangible anguish of life, Kafka told his greatest stories in the condition of dreams (he understood that dreams, despite their infinite fluidity of merging forms, have great narrative economy); 2) as a symbolist (Kafka's long books are called novels chiefly by reason of their length), he found for his two greatest stories, The Trial and The Castle...