Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention city, Nixon received a silver candlestick and an endorsement from the Young Republicans, saw delegations from Michigan, Wisconsin, New York (where Tom Dewey had given him an unqualified, effective endorsement), Pennsylvania and Missouri (where Delegation Chairman Elroy Bromwich remained a feeble flicker of anti-Nixon sentiment). Next day came eight more delegations, and the day after that, nine. Also on the program: a trip to the International Airport to greet Dwight Eisenhower...
Despite Panama's pique, there is no detectable sentiment, even among feverish nationalists, for attempting to take the canal over, Nasser-style. The Panama Canal handles less traffic than Suez (40.6 million tons in 1955 to 115.7 million), but it is even more complex to run because ships have to be raised and lowered by locks. And Panamanians are leary of bolstering arguments, commonplace in naval circles, that the U.S. ought to punch a new, broad, sea-level canal elsewhere through the narrow waist of the Americas...
...Williams checked with leaders from Ohio, Minnesota, Kansas and New Jersey. "I checked the figures myself," said Soapy. "I couldn't see how Harriman could win." Late Tuesday night, Williams called his 44-vote delegation into a chokingly smoke-filled caucus room. The delegation's sentiment was plain. The decision: Michigan voted to cast a big majority for Stevenson...
...those with whom he disagreed. His suggested solution in the early days of Mau Mau terrorism was characteristically simple: "Catch a hundred of these rascals and hang 25 of them in front of the others . . . they are just black baboons." This view outraged the Colonial Office, and left-wing sentiment in Britain, but the government's later (1953) building of a gallows on the golf course might properly be considered by Grogan an endorsement of his position...
...Socialists played on the divisions and infirmities in the regime of eccentric Premier Ichiro Hatoyama. They also made hay with increasing Japanese sentiment against rearmament. To have a bigger force than today's token army, argued Socialist Secretary Inejiro Asanuma, would require U.S. aid and "U.S. control of Japanese affairs," and would "attract the hostility of Japan's neighbors." The U.S. did not help at all by letting it be known that it was greatly increasing its military aid to Japan, possibly by as much as 13 times, or by releasing a report on its land-requisitioning...