Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competitive, freer-trading world outside what Bevin calls "the ruble area." But they would also defend Britain's present bilateral trade deals with other countries (e.g., Argentina) as an unavoidable expedient so long as the dollar shortage lasts. They would have a fairly shrewd notion of the American climate of opinion, of what they might ask and expect to receive...
...nonsense. In a brilliant speech in the House of Commons, he exonerated Wheeler, elevated him to the rank of a momentary national hero, and incidentally maneuvered Gladstone into looking like a blackhearted oppressor of the poor. Disraeli, it appears, shared Novelist Bonnet's notion that Wheeler was chiefly a pretty good little symbol of the 1876 "lower classes"-grimy but devoted to the Queen...
...deciding what sort of house he wants, many a 1949 house-hunter begins with the notion that it ought to be something like Grandmother's. One of the first things he finds out is that the old place needed at least a servant or two to keep it up. Furthermore, it got that spacious look by having a lot of unused space, which Grandmother could afford when her house was built. Perhaps the home-builder should try something new. Flat-roofed, wide-windowed homes that looked queer ten years ago have since become a decorative part of the residential...
...tough times the best hope for mankind is for idealists to build "oases" of humaneness and brotherly love. Stringing along with them, largely out of spiteful hope of seeing the experiment fail, are "the realists," cynical ex-Commies who still retain ("from their Leninist days") the smug and fanciful notion that they are a revolutionary elite. Steeped in a Marx-cum-Freud conviction that no man can "resist history, environment, class structure, psychic conditioning," the realists take for granted that all oases which spring from mere individual initiative are sure to be mirages...
Lord Kemsley, owner of Britain's biggest newspaper chain (22 papers), testified: "The notion that I sit at my desk examining every piece of news as it comes in and saying 'publish this' or 'don't publish that' ... is too fantastic . . . [But] of course I am consulted and give decisions." Lord Beaverbrook, a lusty battler for free enterprise and Empire first, snapped: "I run my papers [Daily Express, Evening Standard] purely for the purpose of making propaganda ... On the few occasions when [my editors] have had different views on an Empire matter to myself...