Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appalled at the wording NUCLEAR POWER Bombing Out? used for TIME'S cover. One misconception of the general public is that nuclear and bomb are necessarily connected. Your choice of words reinforces the erroneous popular notion that anything nuclear constitutes a destructive force...
...McCracken, adding that he had been a millionaire several times before, only to plow his money into other ideas, some of which were not successful enough to a sustain his membership | in the world of mega° wealth. McCracken said he would probably sock his funds into yet another notion, as he always has. (Next time you go to the cinema, as you pass those hot dogs turning on those tubular rollers, think of McCracken. He made a million...
...academy, where he stood out for his arrogance and scholarship as well as for his height (6 ft. 5 in.). As an officer in the late 1920s, he insisted on wearing his beret tilted unconventionally to the right, and championed the superiority of tanks to fixed defenses, an unfashionable notion in the France of the Maginot Line. When his homeland was invaded in 1940 De Gaulle, then 49, put his theories into action: he threw together an armored division and won two important battles against the Germans before they overwhelmed the French positions...
...acceptance speech before the Central Committee, Chernenko tried hard to allay the misgivings he must have known many of his countrymen felt. "Continuity," he said, "is not an abstract notion. It is a living, real cause." He praised Andropov and urged that the best tribute the nation could pay the late Soviet leader would be to "carry on and further advance" his work. But Chernenko also called on party activists to "realistically evaluate what has been accomplished, neither exaggerating nor belittling...
...that the "cultural" interpretation fails much like the one of "racism." In the last 30 years there have been many developments such as demographic shifts and changes in the economy which have had a profound impact on the lives of a large number of Black Americans. Contrary to the notion that the attitudes and behaviors of lower-income Blacks are internal and largely unrelated to external influences such as the economy. It is these developments which explain the insistence of such a high rate of poverty among Blacks...