Word: sentimentalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Providence, R.I. Journal ran advertisements in five key-city Midwest newspapers, sent reprints to some 500 editors of other papers. The purpose: explain the East's plight, poll Midwest sentiment on rationing of gasoline and fuel oils. Responding by the hundreds, Midwesterners affirmed they were willing to accept rationing-when the reason for it is understood...
...tragedy to squander American lives in U.S. heavy bombers over Germany-either by day or by night. The New York Times quoted him, repeated his suggestion that the U.S. craft-Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24s-be assigned to coastal duty. The New York Herald Tribune got the same sentiment from R.A.F. men. News services picked up the British contention, broadcast it far & wide...
...conflicting feelings of Friends toward World War II. Several Quaker families have one son in uniform, another in a C.O. camp. One Philadelphia Meeting has as many young members in one as the other, corresponds with them all. Last spring a Long Island Meeting wrote this facing-both-ways sentiment into its minutes: "We hold in equal respect any member of our Meeting serving in the U.S. Army or taking the stand of the conscientious objector." Several men in the armed forces have asked to become Quakers and been accepted...
...groups were trying hard to convert into pro-war sentiment the quite comprehensible rage of the Mexican people against the Nazis who had killed 13 of the Potrero del Llano's 35-man crew, 14 of the Faja de Oro's 41. A procession of the Potrero's survivors, bearing with them the body of Engineer Rodolfo Chacon Castro, who had died of wounds in a Miami hospital, moved south from San Antonio, Tex. It was predicted that 100,000 would greet the cortege when it arrived in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, where...
...defense of the Canal would like to know is being patrolled most carefully. But General Andrews . . . has no authority to direct the patrolling. [ He ] supplies the heavy bombers . . . but they can't leave the ground . . . until directed to do so by an admiral who shares the Navy sentiment that "Army aviation should stop at the shore line.' " On the Canal's western approaches, says Colonel Knerr, the Navy has "at times even refused to give General Andrews information essential for his defensive plans...