Word: notions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...notion that Israel's aim in the West Bank was "coexistence" was challenged by a number of Arab leaders. Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan said angrily, "This really is the final phase of Israel's efforts to liquidate the Palestinian people," and Jordan's Foreign Minister Marwan el Kassem declared: "The sight of Israeli civilian settlers firing guns into a crowd of unarmed Arab demonstrators can only remind us of the tactics used to drive Palestinians from their homes...
...closet but that, once together, worked a very particular and sudden magic. Legend has it that Fred Astaire would break in a new suit by throwing it against a wall until it yielded up a spontaneous modification of its original cut. Armani wanted the modification without the wall, a notion that could easily have been lost in the translation from sketch to hanger...
...getting ready to fight a nuclear war." In St. Paul, Minn., Bonnie Iverson, 37, a mother of two, is busy collecting signatures for her state's freeze resolution. "I get nervous about going door to door," she confides, "but it's a cause I believe in. It's the notion of what would happen to the land and all life. If nuclear war happens, I hope the bomb hits right here because I don't want to live...
...Kennedy's also influenced the electorate, creating "charismatic expectations" which each president must now try to fulfill. Our whole notion of the presidency has been altered by the Kennedy myth, leading writers (such as James David Barber) to incorporate Kennedy's own power-hunger as a standard for measuring succeeding presidents, Kennedy, Wills argues, triggered a glorification of the powers of the presidency...
President Reagan's view of the struggle in El Salvador is built on his misconception that every complex foreign policy issue is part of a larger U.S. Soviet power struggle. It is a policy based on the notion that military might makes political right, an assumption which will never lead to constructive solutions in El Salvador...