Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reverse its own political committee's verdict on West New Guinea. The Dutch thereby won a victory over Indonesia, which had sought to raise a bogus cry of colonialism (TIME, Dec. 13). A switch in sentiment by half a dozen Latin American nations made the Dutch victory possible...
...praised the Chinese for being generous and brave, but then coupled that with a sentiment not heard in China since the Communists took over: "As a people, the Americans are very generous and brave. In the sphere of scientific knowledge the Americans have developed to such an extent that they can make this world a happy and prosperous place to live in." He would, he said, now like to visit...
...against Yoshida in unnatural alliance. "It is hereby resolved," they moved, "that the House of Representatives does not trust the Yoshida Cabinet. It has continued, without definite objectives, the maladministration of the Occupation; it has indulged in secret diplomacy; it has blundered in economic policies at home. Public sentiment has become nauseated . . . and voices clamor for change." This coalition of right and left could muster a clear majority: 120 conservative "Japan Democrats" and 135 Socialists v. 185 for Premier Yoshida's conservative Liberal Party...
...splinters' choices of numbers are determined largely by sentiment. A big faction of Colorados picked 14 because their party always sweeps Montevideo's Election District 14. Batlle Berres' even bigger group chose 15 because (except for unlucky 13) it was the closest thing to 14. Two splinters that regard themselves as friendly opponents of the 145 and the 155 took the numbers 1414 and 1515. Other Colorados chose 65 in honor of the revolution of 1865, and a Blanco faction picked 97 as a memorial gesture to the revolution...
...ranks with inflation as an obstacle to Brazil's healthy economic growth. But for the time being, the administration can do little about nationalism except refrain from encouraging it. The administration's common-sense policy on the Petrobras oil law is to let it stand until nationalistic sentiment subsides, and get as much foreign participation in oil development as the law's loopholes permit. Explains Cafe Filho laconically: "The problem now is not to change the law, but to interpret...