Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the AEC stood still, military staffs and armchair strategists toyed (that seemed to be the word) with the possibilities of the atom. One current and quite plausible notion of how to keep the Red Army from seizing Europe: drop intensely poisonous atomic dust to form a barrier between the U.S.S.R. and the land to the west of it. Such a cordon might last for years; it would not, however, prevent the Russians from developing bacteriological weapons, possibly more deadly than the atom (see MEDICINE), which could be sent across the barrier...
...from pneumonia, she spent a summer at a rest camp high up on San Jacinto. The camp owner had pointed to the scrub-covered desert below and said: "There's the place to spend the winter." Her father, a hotelkeeper in Santa Monica, laughed at Nellie's notion that Palm Springs would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations and good food," she said. "The auto...
...American Way." The U.S. zone has far fewer Americans than the Soviet zone has Russians. Most of the Americans, though not the most important ones, are downy-cheeked G.I.s in their late teens. They have no real notion of why !hey are there. At Passau in Bavaria one of their officers told me: "We aren't making any impression on the Germans that I can see. There are only 300 Americans in this whole area of some 700,000 Germans. Our number is being further cut. Very few of us are interested in Germany. Few of us know...
From 1812 to 1818, Peacock gyrated in the circles of vegetarians, astrologists, freethinkers and other cranks who trailed his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley. Laughing uproariously at their disputes over how to reform the world, he got the notion of putting them into a novel. The result, Headlong Hall (1816), permanently settled the question of Peacock's proper pursuit...
...Russians are born slaves], what impelled the Russian peasants to cast their votes for democratic parties whenever elections were held in Russia? . . . The half-illiterate kolkhoz peasant, loathing Red serfdom, has a clearer notion of democracy than . . . Henry Wallace...