Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experienced at first hand the development of that first dichotomy in the spirit of the American nation. In 1821 much of our country's territory was left almost ungarrisoned, just when the U.S. was beginning to put into practice what its ruling class would soon come to call Manifest Destiny...
...there is another possibility. Given the thesis that Southerners possess a certain talent for law, for government and politics -you remember the early Virginians-then maybe those talents will now be free to manifest themselves. Perhaps the South owes the country the debt. The North saved the Union the first time. I'm slightly optimistic that the South will save it a second time...
...author, naturalistically, does not explain what Emily cannot understand, but the answer is manifest on every page of the novel. The thing gone wrong in the Grimes sisters' lives is life itself...
...protesting food price hikes that swept across Poland provided a fitting background for the uneasy, restless mood of the Communist summit. Meeting in the modern, wood-paneled conference room of the Hotel Stadt Berlin, the chiefs of Western Europe's Communist parties rose one after the other to manifest their independence from the Kremlin's 50-year-long hegemony...
...reason, as expressed through the will of the people. Whereas their ancestors of 100 or 150 years ago mistrusted man's rationality and relied instead on the revelations of the Scriptures, modern American leaders believe that reason, at its best, is the voice of truth and God made manifest. Far from destroying legitimate government in the current Revolt, the authors of the Declaration believe that they are restoring it, returning to Americans the rights guaranteed them under the British Constitution, that "mirror of liberty" as Montesquieu has called it. "God himself does not govern in an absolutely arbitrary...