Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...training leads away from scholarship. The postulate of all scholarly investigation is the nagging existence of mystery. The training of not a few young Catholics makes them believe that there is no mystery. It is all objectively clear and the category schemes of the past can make it manifest. If that is so, there is nothing more to be done. It has been done already and why waste time doing it over again...
...representatives in the U.S. refused to participate. One informant led CBS sleuths to his apartment to hear a recording in which by his account Galíndez' alleged assassin was identified. When they arrived the tapes had been stolen. CBS's frightening story within a story was manifest everywhere in the broadcast, and punctuated at the end by the fretful voice of the late Gerry Murphy's fiancee, Sally Ciare: "Even now, in Kansas, I can't actually say I feel completely safe...
...Cargo Manifest. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., cops rousted 6 ft. 6 in., 235 lb. Dempse McCormick out of an ice cream parlor where they found him sleeping, booked him for vagrancy after they emptied his pockets, discovered two billfolds, 30 cigarette lighters, a tobacco pouch, two flashlights, three toothbrushes, a tube of toothpaste, four bottles and two cans of lighter fluid, four spools of thread, one bottle of garlic salt, two tie clasps, three corks, nine pocket knives, two screwdrivers, a pair of pliers, two spools of fishing line, 15 assorted fishhooks, twelve defunct .38 cal. bullets...
...coexistence policy, a successful operation a year ago, had been literally shot to pieces by the Russian attack on Hungary. To restore their prestige in the satellite countries, the Soviet leaders had had to call on the good offices of Red China's urbane Chou Enlai, a manifest humiliation for Russian leadership. Finally, they had the difficult job of reassuring their own elite that they were in full and competent command of the Communist world...
...limited democracy. Communist candidates were greeted with such cries as "What did you do to prevent the bad years?" and "I'm for Gomulka, but right after he came in prices went up." Listening coldly to candidates' ingratiating speeches, voters debated which was the better way to manifest their disgust with Communism: to boycott the elections, or to cross off all the Communist names at the top of the ballots. Their defiance was subtly encouraged by the Stalinist Communist leaders whom Gomulka supplanted, who did not hesitate to appeal to Poland's latent anti-Semitism and describe...