Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the United States leaves, and it will be particularly bloody if the north gets the upper hand, as is still likely. The North Vietnamese program of deliberate killing of civilians, especially village leaders and their families and Catholics, would be stepped up to eliminate counter-revolutionary sentiment. Thus, immediate withdrawal might well lead to more deaths than a gradual program...
...Student sentiment during this period continually turned against the CRR. In University-wide referenda, students twice declined to send representatives to the Committee, even though one of the votes, in the words of then CRR chairman, Donald G. Anderson, was "guaranteed to produce students...
...largely a matter of timing. Taken over a period of 21 weeks (Aug. 25-Sept. 12), the Yankelovich study, for example, showed a slight upswing for McGovern in its last week. The most recent Gallup and Harris polls, conducted in late September, confirmed that some pro-McGovern shift in sentiment was taking place...
With Nixon's 28-point lead, despite the fact that Democrats hold a big voter-registration advantage-the polls are once again under fire as unreliable. This sentiment surfaces repeatedly as the U.S. public quite naturally resists the notion that it can be so neatly and numerically tabbed on the basis of what a relatively few Americans (about 1,500 in the normal sample) tell the pollsters...
...McGovern. Holding aloft a U.S. pineapple bomb in Philadelphia, he cried, "Does it increase our honor because the color of the bodies has been changed from white to yellow? Their blood is still red. They are still children under God." Before an assembly of unionists in Detroit, where antibusing sentiment runs high, he was uncompromising. With the exception of the war, McGovern said, "there is no darker chapter in the presidency of Richard Nixon than his exploitation of the difficult questions and emotions surrounding this issue of busing...