Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Curtain. Hovercraft were born in the fertile mind of British Aeronautical Engineer Christopher Cockerell in 1954. Testing his notion in true pioneer-inventor fashion, he attached a hose to the exhaust of an ordinary vacuum cleaner, stuck it through a hole in the top of an open-bottomed tin can, and watched fascinated as the can floated off the floor; the increased air pressure inside the can had pushed against the floor through the open end, lifting the can. Recognizing that the unhindered escape of air from the bottom of the can-and from the bottom of early experimental craft...
Irresponsible users of LSD in Southern California, already noted for having tested, with fatal results, the notion that they can fly from tall buildings, last week added more dangers to the list of the drug's effects...
...classic, Volpone. Written in 1606, the Elizabethan comedy chronicles the rise and fall of a wily miser who pretends to be dying in order to trick his equally greedy friends into bringing him costly deathbed gifts. Each donor believes that he will be Volpone's sole beneficiary-a notion ironically dispelled when the miser's servant writes his own name into his boss's blank will...
Constantine may be successful in forcing the military to restore a civilian government that fulfills his own notion of "democracy." The U.S. should not be satisfied with the king's very limited concept; nor should this country rely solely upon him to exert influence on the military rulers...
...late Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, man is evolving toward an "Omega point," or ultimate encounter with God. To Methodist Schilling, the phenomenon involves "the ongoing life of the whole person, not of the body in the physical sense, but of something equivalent to what a body is, a notion of renewal rather than mere survival, in ways that we cannot know. It is a matter of faith, but I think a reasonable and intelligent faith...