Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run, that emphasis might be justified. But in Western Europe last week, there were fresh stirrings of the notion that politics-and political security -needed attending to. Nobody had been quite sure what Britain's heavy-handed Ernest Bevin had had in mind when he made his gesture toward Western European union last month. Europeans hoped he was talking about more than customs agreements. The British starting point on a Western Union, it had developed, was a system of pacts similar to the Anglo-French 50-year alliance (Treaty of Dunkirk) against "German aggression...
Soon to appear is another work by Professor Friedrich. The book, "Inevitable Peace," which traces the history of the western notion of inevitable peace, will come out March...
...view the bill would furthermore "completely reverse the basic American notion of delegation of power to many small groups of citizens responsible for our schools and colleges": the school committees of the public education system and the alumni of chartered colleges and universities who are "special electorates, so to speak...
...Munich, a workman told an American correspondent: "You fired him because he is the first German leader with the guts to tell the truth." Then the workman admitted that he had only the vaguest notion of what Semmler had said. A leader of the powerful Christian Social Union party sermonized: "This incident is proof that all gossip about freedom and democracy is false...
...Capote'-at this minute the words are resounding on many a sixtieth floor, and 'get him' of course means make him and break him, smother him with laurels and then vent on him the obscure hatred which is inherent in the notion of another's superiority...