Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that is not the point of view of the Soviet leaders. They regard themselves as custodians of the future of the world. In their opinion, everything is going their way; as leaders of a socialist state with a Communist goal, they regard themselves as the advance agents of manifest destiny. In Poland* and the Balkans they believe that they are helping manifest destiny along, although the resistance is terrific from the "unenlightened," who are in a vast majority...
...hundred and one years ago, as the U.S. approached the Mexican War of 1846, a Democratic editor found a defiant and memorable phrase: "Manifest Destiny." The phrase fitted the temper of the times, and salved the country's conscience: the U.S. was not really hijacking California from Mexico. It was destiny...
Destiny went west. It gathered in Alaska by peaceful purchase, and Hawaii by annexation. But the real diamond of the Pacific, the Philippine Archipelago, was not for sale. It belonged to Spain, a backward oppressor. With a deep breath and a fierce face, Manifest Destiny hitched up its pants and went to war-for "Cuba libre" and a free Philippines...
Rizal was executed for his ardor in 1896-a Spanish act that fixed Rizal, and freedom, forever in the Filipino mind. The same year, Spain was chastising others of its colonists-the Cubans. In the U.S., Manifest Destiny, indignant over the spectacle of Spanish soldiers hunting defenseless, freedom-loving Cubans in the hills, glowered and tugged. In Congress and in the torch-lighted squares, war fever mounted...
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...