Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis waited four days. Then he wrote his miners again. The gist of it: "I never told you to strike. This is all your own idea...
Tall, lithe and handsome, he is the airman's idea of what an airman should look like, but some airmen felt that his lack of assertiveness was likely to handicap him in interservice arguments with the Navy and the Army...
Western Europeans nursed no great hope that U.N. would be able to maintain peace. What else was there? One other idea that rank-&-file Europeans turned over in their minds now was Western European Union. So far, to the average man, the words were little more than a label; fewer people had heard the phrase than had heard, for example, of U.N. or the Marshall Plan. But Western Europe liked the sound of Western Union...
...Generally speaking, are you in favor of the idea of a Western European Union, against the idea, or haven't you made up your mind about...
...Civil Liberties to "educate the public on the rights of the individual." To be sure, the first meeting almost broke up in disorder when one man asked, "By what authority does the association claim the right to educate others?" But Irishmen still thought the association was a good idea. The sponsors felt that human rights and freedoms could not be taken for granted; they were worth thinking about. Perhaps it was as much worth doing as anything else that preoccupied people this spring...