Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the country, lining up assignations." Ehrlichman said that "Liddy was badly embarrassed by the chewing out he got" from Mitchell for providing such weak "intelligence" and promised: "Mr. Mitchell, I'll take care of it." Ehrlichman added: "The next break-in was entirely on Liddy's own notion." During that operation on June 17, the bugging team got caught...
...next election was very important, and only 12% believed that their ballot would not make much difference. Incumbents of both parties are likely to be hurt by a throw-all-the-rascals-out reaction. Fully 52% of all the respondents polled agreed strongly or partly with the notion that all present congressional officeholders up for re-election in November should be bounced...
...therefore seems that the notion that oil companies are making outrageous profits is the result of twisted statistics. Even if profits were high that would not reveal anything scandalous or immoral. It seems that the only scandal oil profits reveal is the way they have been grossly misrepresented. The only real scandal is the great number of public figures who are willing to bend the truth to support their ideological contentions...
...raising group to examine their traditional lifestyles. A nationwide survey of 660 women conducted last year by Social Research Inc., an independent market-research company, found a radical shift in the attitudes of blue-collar workers' wives over the past decade. These women no longer automatically accept the notion that they must stay at home and be subservient to their husbands. Many of the women surveyed confess that if they had a chance to start over, they would not choose a traditional housewife's role; nearly one-third argued that the women's lib movement...
Stoppard is particularly drawn to playwrights who shake up an audience's habitual patterns of thought. That is one reason he admires Harold Pinter: "Pinter invented something-not the poetry of ordinary conversation that he is usually credited with, but the notion that you do not necessarily believe what people tell you in a theater. Formerly you did so, unless there was reason for skepticism-as in an Agatha Christie play. In Pinter's plays there is no surface reason for not telling the truth, but he has persuaded an entire generation of theatergoers that people...