Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Delhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the tough Minister for States Affairs, has hurled a challenge at the Nizam: "Accede or die." Even peace-talking Premier Jawaharlal Nehru threatened Hyderabad. With contempt he said: "It is a completely wrong notion to talk of war with Hyderabad ... If there are to be wars they must be with free countries. But ... if and when it is considered necessary we shall have military operations against Hyderabad...
Dukes. This was a radical notion. "In all earlier sepulchral monuments," De Tolnay says, "the images of the dead were represented as outstretched on the sarcophagi...
...This Petulant Ajax." The maneuver was almost unprecedented. Not since 1856 had a President called back Congress in an election year.* It was a daring stroke of political chicanery. For the moment, at least, Harry Truman had destroyed the notion that the Republican Party would win almost by default. Like an aggressive general, he had seized the offensive at a time and place of his own choosing. If anyone had thought that the President would fight a hopeless delaying action against the Dewey panzers, it was now plain as a tank track that Harry Truman meant to go down fighting...
Many a skipper set out. for Dunkirk with just "a series of courses penciled on the back of an envelope" and no notion of the holocaust that awaited him (personnel-ship Scotia passed a returning destroyer in mid-Channel, received from her merely the deadpan warning: "Windy off No. 6 buoy"). Tug Sun XI found herself ferrying to & fro for seven days, "like a sardine tin full up everywhere." Skipper Lightoller packed troops into his yacht Sundowner until, in his own expressive words, "I could feel her getting distinctly tender, so took no more...
CCFers and many a Liberal cheered. From the Tories came a chorus of "No! No!" Arsenault's private bill had little chance of passage. Snapped the Ottawa Journal: "... A very silly notion. Words or the lack of them do not make our independence." But many loyal, pro-Empire Canadians agreed with Arsenault's purpose, if not his motive: they were tired of explaining to Americans that "Dominion" does not imply "domination...