Word: notional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decade ago, most Western analysts thought a split between the Soviet Union and China inconceivable. Today, the analysts find the notion that Moscow and Peking will make up any time in the foreseeable future equally inconceivable. Indeed, even in agreeing to hold border talks with the Soviets, the Chinese spoke of "irreconcilable differences" with Moscow. Yet what if the inconceivable should occur once again, and Moscow and Peking were able to reach a genuine reconciliation? Among the possibilities...
...advisors are not yet convinced that the American people will settle only for immediate withdrawal; currently, the White House seems to feel that retaining some 200,000 American troops in Vietnam for ten years or more can be made acceptable to the American people. To disabuse them of this notion will probably require, at the least. months of mass demonstrations in favor of immediate withdrawal, and a greater percentage of Americans supporting such a policy than the 57 per cent reported in the last Gallup poll...
...planning, and they have threatened loafing workers with "ideological training"-a euphemism for force. The government has brought in Yugoslav construction crews, Polish textile workers and Hungarian railroad men, and called on Czech workers to work "voluntary" weekend shifts to commemorate Lenin's 100th birthday next year. The notion ironically harks back to the freely given "Dubček shifts" that workers put in during their brief springtime of freedom. Otherwise, the occupation regime's tinkering with the economy has made the situation worse. A 16% wage increase in the first half of 1969 only increased the rate...
Termination is the proposed final solution to the Indian problem, a Government policy advocated since 1953 with the apparently laudable, liberal and practical notion that federal aid to Indians should be cut off, reservations closed down, and all remaining Indians independently blended into something called "the American economic and cultural mainstream...
...represent a form of "defeatism"-a widespread feeling that there is no clear way of forcing a peace settlement from Hanoi, but that the killing must stop and therefore the U.S. must pull out. On the other extreme, Nixon's plea for unity, while based on the valid notion that the war's real battleground has shifted to the field of U.S. public opinion, rests on the assumption that if the allies just hang on in South Viet Nam, the Communists will grow tired and seek a settlement-or the South Vietnamese army and government will grow strong...