Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something from a nightmare with an ugly gaping mouth, and had no fins, like other fish, for swimming north and south; this four-foot thing used two long arms to push it 'round the ocean, and (we presume) to wash its face whene'er it had the notion...
...world we knew, señores, is a casualty of the war. In the past, without strength of arms, we pushed the notion of sacred sovereignty as far as it would go. We had to do that, because only by asserting our moral inviolability as sovereign states could we build a moral defense against the Colossus of the North...
...notion of sovereignty was stronger than ever. Many of the states represented at San Francisco had just been through a war in which they used unprecedented resources with unprecedented prodigality and obtained a victory which each thought of as a national achievement. Sovereignty had reached a new high...
Cash & Carry. In Des Moines, a war bride, fresh from New Zealand, labored under a pocketbook heavy with coins, and the notion that she had to change a bill every time she bought something...
Nobody was apt to think of leftish James George Patton, the big, hard-working president of the Farmers Union, as a director of a $300 million corporation. And the notion that Jim Patton would sit on the same board of directors with Montgomery Ward & Co.'s labor-baiting Sewell L. Avery was even more incongruous. But for a little while last week it looked as if these incongruities might come to pass...