Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot be deemed other than weak of will or mind, deprived him of due process of law." From Justice John Marshall Harlan (joined by Stanley Reed and Harold Burton) came a vigorous dissent. The gist: not only was there no physical coercion but "psychological coercion is by no means manifest"; on the basis of the record, the state authorities did nothing more serious in their handling of the case than "offend some fastidious squeamishness or private sentimentalism about combating crime too energetically." In any case, wrote Harlan, since reasonable men could differ on whether Fikes's constitutional rights...
...recognizable success-and it is in the Middle East that such a success seems to beckon. Therefore, said Ike, spelling out the way U.S. collective-security planning had helped in Western Europe, Greece, Turkey and the Far East, "it is now essential that the U.S. should manifest through joint action of the President and the Congress our determination to assist those nations of the Mideast area which may desire that assistance." That was why he had come before them to request stand-by congressional authority...
...policy which I outline involves certain burdens and indeed risks . . . but the occasion has come for us to manifest again our national unity in support of freedom and to show our deep respect for the rights and independence of every nation-however great, however small...
...Christmas message to the Dutch people, The Netherlands' Queen Juliana spoke out bluntly on the palace crisis that has rocked the House of Orange-Nassau. The royal disharmony manifest between Juliana and her consort, much-traveling Prince Bernhard, apparently focused on the Queen's now renounced ties with Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25 et seq.). Said Juliana: "Why . . . do some people attack someone by devious means with false claims? Why . . . do they try to drive a wedge between a man and a woman in vain attempts to destroy a deeply rooted unity...
...idea remain cautious about their visions of what a Center can accomplish. Effective arguments could be built on the expectation that a school in International Studies at Harvard might make significant contributions to political science. But primary justification for the Center is being drawn instead from the manifest need to correct the currently deplorable situation, in which the University's valuable resources are being squandered through lack of emphasis and coherent organization...