Word: sentimentalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They believe isolationism is dead. At convention's end, sentiment was unanimous that no man could win a Presidential nomination next year without a forthright declaration in favor of a vigorous, realistic, world-minded foreign policy...
...freshman Congressman, Arkansas's James William Fulbright, it proved exactly the catalytic agent that Capitol Hill has awaited. For the first time, global-minded Congressmen of varying political and economic chemistry were drawn together-and the world could see how fast has been the growth of sentiment in the U.S. for postwar world cooperation...
Toronto's powerful Globe & Mail cried that Ontario residents should "feel humiliated and insulted." Said the London (Ont.) Free Press: "We doubt if there was ever a time when there was so little sentiment in favor of union with the U.S. as today." Ontario's Premier Harry C. Nixon repudiated the Speaker. Said he: "Ontario is intensely British and will remain so. Let no man tell us otherwise...
...Learn to Hate." Anticipating just such political warfare, Mussolini has wrapped a toga of self-righteousness about his sub-Napoleonic figure. More than two decades as the father of 20th-century Fascism have taught him how to play upon the childlike sentiment of millions of his people. While the Allies paused in Tunisia he cunningly launched a hate-the-U.S. campaign which was ridiculous but effective...
...childhood writing poetry and tinkling at the piano. He attended a military school and, before he was 19, fought with Pancho Villa. Mustered out, he went to Mexico City and began his musical career as a whorehouse pianist. Today many of his songs reveal an intimate knowledge of bordello sentiment. Another permanent acquisition was a deep knife gash running upward from the left corner of his mouth. After witnessing a shooting affair which left one woman dead and several wounded, Lara decided to move up the social scale...