Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had contemplated using at least the natural barriers of France's toothless, unreversed Maginot Line, that notion had been blown away by the advances of Lieut. General Omar Bradley's light-footed armies. Wherever the enemy might have planned to form at least a delaying line - the Meuse, the Somme, the Aisne, the Moselle-the barriers had been swept over before he could organize any defense in strength...
Emily Claire Davis is director of WACs in the Army Ground Forces. Thirty, baby of the Nine, "Em" Davis plays a hearty game of golf, rises regularly at 6 a.m., has a vague notion that some day she may run for Congress...
...Love a Soldier (Paramount) treats frivolously a not -altogether - frivolous theme. An enticing young shipyard worker (Paulette Goddard) spends her days welding metal ships, her nights welding soldiers' hearts. Meantime she clings to the notion that a young woman should consider it her duty to kiss the boys goodbye, but hardly ever do much else for them...
...that world reform must begin in the individual soul, and that men may enter "the Divine Ground" of eternity only by a regime of selflessness and contemplation. Nor should man imagine that death will save him the trouble of choosing between flesh and spirit. Author Huxley's alarming notion is that the same choice will confront all men in the hereafter...
...mature comment on a U.S. liberalism which often claims them as forebears. With a conspicuous lack of enthusiasm they write about a U.S. foreign policy based on "shadowy plans for a world order and for enforcing the four freedoms throughout the world." With half-concealed asperity they dismiss the notion that the New Deal represented a fundamental attack on poverty. They make a partial defense of Whipping Boy Herbert Hoover. Write the Beards: "President Hoover accepted no defeatist philosophy while this terrible depression harrowed the nation. . . . But Democratic tactics in the House of Representatives were principally confined to obstructing . . . such...