Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...routine by suggesting that the whole point of the election had been "to send a boy to camp." Then, last week, the rumors rumbling down the mountainside turned into a sudden avalanche of appointments for Nixon's second term. All were in keeping with the President's notion that the best way to run an overgrown bureaucracy is to staff it with his own men-proven, competent, completely loyal. The careers of the four key appointees are described on following pages...
...with millions stolen from Jews and vanquished peoples, Odessa helped SS members to go underground or escape to foreign countries. Later it began to reinfiltrate them into German life, as it plotted a return to power and tried to vitiate SS guilt by encouraging the notion that the whole German people are to blame for the millions of SS murders...
...notion seems to have gotten into the heads of several people, inside and outside SCLC, that the Communists wanted Angela Davis to be convicted so they could make the most use of her as a proof of the unscrupulousness of American government. Precisely how this notion gained currency is somewhat obscure, but Angela Davis denies that it has any validity, as do several top SCLC staffers. Far from feeling that the interaction between C.P. and SCLC officials further alienated the two groups, she feels that their cooperation in her defense did much to bring them together...
...back-breaking tasks, buffeted by climate, indentured to a severe land, a Swedish Job is sometimes tempted to curse God and die. Instead, he retains his faith-in a remote ideal called the United States of America. His family is similarly enchanted; one of them chortles at the notion of a liberty so unrestricted that "you can say 'you' to the President." (English is one of the few tongues without familiar and formal pronouns; thus the notion of American freedom begins with the grammarian...
...JAILING LAST WEEK of Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, is a dangerous infringement of the basic Constitutional rights supposedly guaranteed by this country to its citizens. The decision of Federal District Judge W. Arthur Garrity pushes the First Amendment closer to extinction and further advance the strained notion that grand juries exit above...