Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interests are trying to drive the British out of the Middle East). They understood that the alliance stands as firm as ever in the geographical limits of its primary purpose-the defense of Europe-and that Britain remains the U.S.'s closest friend by blood, interests and sentiment. This fact was underlined last week when the U.S.Export-Import Bank granted Britain a $500 million loan (at 4½% interest) to help Britain through its post-Suez crisis...
Love in a Home (Doris Day; Columbia). A warm sentiment from the show Li'l Abner: "You can tell when you open the door ... if there's love in a home...
...Star President Hindmarsh had little time for sentiment (he was famed for mass firings on Christmas Eve), was determined to sell the Star to the highest bidder. Early last week Hindmarsh went to the Star office ready to force a showdown with the foundation directors. Two directors who had doggedly held out against a sale were longtime Star employees; Hindmarsh gruffly demanded and got their resignation, replaced them with two more tractable executives. Director Joseph Atkinson Jr., the late publisher's son, and Hindmarsh's wife, the fifth director, voted with him, and within 48hours the competing evening...
Blasphemous Candor. The transatlantic friendship was renewed, but it would be a different, perhaps a healthier relationship. It would be based on the realization that Britain, France and the U.S., old friends united by necessity and sentiment, have a common purpose in Europe, but only parallel-and sometimes even divergent-interests in other places...
...Charlie), she falls in love at first hearing. The love story of Bells Are Ringing is almost defiantly orthodox, but suffused as it is with Judy's warmth, never really becomes a burden. But it does bulk much too large for wit to keep pace with sentiment, for the Comden-Green book to display the usual fresh, crisp Comden-Greenness...