Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a below peak, hitless performance, the squad coasted into the top of the seventh on the 3-1 lead it had held since the third. The possibility of a loss seemed as remote as the notion that a team ought to get at least one hit if it wants to win a game...
Silly possibility, silly notion...
...offer, which referred vaguely to financial as well as technological participation, put the spotlight on a debate that has been going on in several allied nations since President Reagan broached the Star Wars concept in March 1983. No one quarreled publicly with the notion that the U.S. had the right, under existing security treaties, to conduct a space-defense research program; indeed, the ministers attending the Luxembourg meeting endorsed such an effort unanimously, and NATO's Secretary-General, Lord Carrington, described the discussions as "harmonious and constructive...
...their dual roles have made them a little undisciplined: they have tended to retain anything that gets a laugh or a gasp of astonishment. Thus the first act ends with startling visual evidence that the infant really possesses spiritual powers; the second act does nothing to explore that provocative notion. Still, the , show's energy never flags, and its lunatic characters are perversely endearing...
...ROMANTICISM ITSELF anything other than an Oriental eruption of the intellect?" he boldly asks. And yet, Schwab admits that the relationship between the two influences was "less a local and temporary one than an essential one." Above all, he attempts to dispel the notion that the Oriental impact on western thinking was merely "a fanciful dream." He points out, wryly, that "China had a long history in Europe, but it had been too much represented by folding screens, porcelains, and banalities...