Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nervous, bumbling graduate student in history at Columbia, in the process of writing a doctoral dissertation designed to clear the name of his late father, a noted historian driven to alcoholism, and finally, to suicide by the McCarthy witch hunts, and you'll have something of a notion of what makes Marathon Man an outstanding thriller...
...next door neighbor, who lives through a fire door, affirms this notion. "You might say that Gino is the major cause of alcoholism on campus. And his roommates are living proof of it." He grins, self satisfied. "Ninety-five proof...
...With the help of tax preferences and Government props, he created a million-dollar concern, made $137,000 last year, on which he paid just under 13% federal income tax. A million dollars does not, of course, mean what it used to, but the magical figure still inspires the notion that a fellow has done pretty well. The Republican contender, while moving pleasantly and obediently through the world of wealth, has been a salaried officeholder virtually all his adult life and has accumulated only a modest estate. He paid almost 38% of his $252,000 income last year in federal...
Among other things, the African leaders objected to the notion of the council of state as supreme, the allotment of the two security ministries to whites, and Smith's inference that the new constitution would be drawn up inside Rhodesia. They also wanted greater speed: "We are talking about majority rule in four to six weeks," said Julius Nyerere, "with the formation of an interim government." Nyerere also noted wryly that Smith had ended his TV speech with Churchill's famous line: "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning...
...land, though these will eventually be consolidated into six pieces. The Zulu homeland of KwaZulu was originally in 188 parcels, is now in 29, and will ultimately be consolidated to ten. Scoffs Buthelezi, who is also the Chief Minister of KwaZulu: "A state in ten separate pieces? The very notion is nonsensical." Buthelezi has flatly refused independence for KwaZulu, explaining: "It is meaningless political freedom combined with effective economic slavery." Adds Hudson Ntsanwisi, Chief Minister of poverty-ridden Gazankulu: "We are nothing but a staging ground for South Africa's migratory labor, and a dumping ground for her dispossessed...