Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from drinking his tenth whisky, you would slap him on the back and say, 'Be a man.' No one who wished to dissuade a crocodile from eating his tenth explorer would slap it on the back and say, 'Be a crocodile.' For we have no notion of a perfect crocodile; no allegory of a whale expelled from his Whaley Eden...
Beanie Baldwin's new title is Area Director of Economic Operations in Italy. Last week he said he had no notion of: 1) the Italian language, 2) the approximate date he would sail, 3) the exact duties of his new job, 4) his staff...
Another fixed notion of marketwise-guys is that corporations with large war contracts are automatically bad bargains as peace becomes more certain, and vice versa. A few grossly inflated war producers (like aircraft and machine tools) do face vast uncertainties in reconversion to peace. But among the "war stocks" that sold off fractionally were auto shares, and the auto industry's postwar prospects are as bright as any other's. And among the "peace stocks" that boomed were utilities, which have really benefited from zooming war production...
Talk Treatment. Modern Army psychiatrists have a better notion. As soon as a front-line soldier loses his grip, he is urged to tell what is the matter, preferably to an Army psychiatrist, just behind the battle lines. The doctors do not let him get the idea that he will be pulled out of battle and sent for a good long rest. For doctors have found that the surest cure for such cases is fast treatment...
...always, he took a few swings at certain Republicans: "The Republican Party must completely forsake the tempting notion that it can win by the amalgamation of the dissident groups in America -the narrow nationalists, the economically selfish . . . above all, the religious and racial bigots. In other words, we Republicans must take the affirmative, eschew the negative...