Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good when the Senate has deigned to be host to the poor relations with country manners in the upper house. Dull fits their perverse purpose: to make a case strong enough to vindicate their vote to impeach, but not so strong that the need for witnesses isn't manifest. The only way to pre-empt Days of Our Lives is to get the gold-festooned Chief Justice to ask Monica Lewinsky to raise her right hand. It's their last chance to change the public's mind...
...William Jefferson Clinton has undermined the integrity of his office, has brought disrepute on the Presidency, has betrayed his trust as President, and has acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States." --FROM THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT APPROVED BY THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE...
...public" and "private" space. The entrance is adjacent to the private rooms, the bedrooms and studies, and a guest must move through them first to access the public region of entertainment. This shift echoes the transition from the inland side of the house to the waterside. This differentiation is manifest in the exterior construction as well. The proliferation of windows facing the water is distinct from any other wall. The entire house is composed along a diagonal that mimics the slope down to the water...
...place fit for God's elect. In the 17th century the Wild West was in the East, but by the early 19th the frontier had moved thousands of miles westward, taking with it the same optimistic, sacramental fantasy, translating it into the pompous and morally corrosive idea of Manifest Destiny. The farther west you went, the freer you became...
...that's not what made last Tuesday so special. And the horse race with Sammy Sosa was a kind of interesting sidenote. But what makes this gripping is that when the lights came up, McGwire glowed. In a country whose history has included such popular expressions as "predestination," "manifest destiny" and "how to win friends and influence people," McGwire learned the power of self-assuredness. As he put it, he was meant to do it. That's hard to disagree with. That's what made it so difficult, and such a triumph...