Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freedom from want is neither a conjurer's trick nor a madman's dream. The earth has never known it, nor anything approaching it. But free men do not accept the defeatist notion that it never will...
...battle-fronts was like,--least of all the Hollywood cellulords. So they turned out a flock of films with closely contrived plots about fifth columnists and secret bomb sights and Madeleine Carroll. Some of them were good and some bad, but none had more than a vague notion of mechanized warfare. Now that we are beginning to build up a photographic record of this second World War, Hollywood is giving forth with a new kind of fight film. "Eagle Squadron" is one of the first of this second crop...
Dismissing the fond notion that the Third Reich can easily be starved into submission, the picture aptly illuminates the Nazis' use of food to control their conquered peoples. In stricken cities food is used to lure skilled workers to the Nazi war industries; in other places food is removed so that Jews and unwanted nationals will die. Those who play ball with the Nazis eat better than those who don't. The Nazis know that the undernourished are too numb to revolt...
...slippered, balding millions were not complaining; they just wanted to know. Few had any notion where they would wind up in total war. Washington had given the nod to local draft boards for induction on June 1 of some of the oldsters who registered Feb. 16. But that meant little or nothing. An estimated 84% of them have dependents...
Landlubbers may think that a U.S. naval officer spends most of his time on shipboard either leading the fight or practicing for it. This notion would be shaken if landlubbers could see an officer's tall, steel desk, a formidable affair with apparently enough drawers, slats and pigeonholes for a post office. For the streams of red tape on land flow right out to sea. An officer spends many an hour shuffling papers in the pigeonholes, dictating to a yeoman or even hunting and pecking on his portable, creating more red tape for other officers to shuffle...