Word: sentimentalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first step toward Dominion status. When that was accomplished, India would become an equal partner in the Commonwealth, free (if she so desired) to secede from the Crown. Was Britain not risking "the brightest jewel of the British Crown?" Indians were not Britons linked by ties of blood and sentiment to the islands in the distant northern...
...have certain political opportunities which the world organization will be asked to block. We can stop any real action against us with our veto. True, the Assembly may be a troublesome forum for stirring up anti-Soviet sentiment. But this matter of 'free discussion' is still complicated, you know. After all, comrades, we shall have something to say about what subjects lie 'within the charter' and therefore are subject to discussion. And the Assembly offers certain opportunities to discuss social and economic matters upon which our viewpoint will be of interest to many millions...
Said Radio Tokyo: "Personal government by the Emperor, based on the tradition and sentiment of the Japanese nation, is more deeply rooted than government by law and can meet more successfully what is occasioned by the gravity of the situation. [It is like] parental authority by which parents do anything they deem absolutely necessary for their children's welfare...
...deals with themes often fatal to good picturemaking, Rhapsody manages to portray a genius without groveling awe, to follow a rags to riches career without wallowing in melodrama, and to picture a warmly devoted, richly accented Jewish family on New York's lower East Side without slobberings of sentiment or catalepsies of caricature...
...what he thinks of the Government of the day, however powerful, and to turn them out neck and crop if he thinks he can better his temper or his home thereby. . . ." Churchill found few differences between the Conservative and Liberal Parties ("There is scarcely a Liberal sentiment which animated the great Liberal leaders of the past which we do not inherit and defend...