Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of the treaty in the U.S. is less certain. Commitment to a U.S.-controlled canal is deeply embedded in popular sentiment and skillfully exploited by such conservative Republican Senators as Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Helms flaunts a recent poll of 1,011 adult Americans by the Opinion Research Corporation, showing 78% for keeping the canal, only 14% willing to cede it to Panama. Yet the survey does not specify the conditions under which the U.S. might relinquish the canal...
...Panamanians ngw call the thoroughfare the Avenue of the Martyrs as a reminder of the 1964 riots, in which 21 Panamanians and four Americans were killed in several days of fighting along the line. The words BASES NO, painted on billboards and walls around the city, reflect the overwhelming sentiment among volatile students. "The treaty will have to be X-rayed by the university," says Anayka Mercado, 19, a student at a private technical school...
...William muses: "His father had pushed him into it [the army] but he forgave him for that: we have to forgive our parents if we want our children to forgive us." In a different context, this conclusion could have all the resonance of a greeting-card sentiment. In Sillitoe's novel, it rings with hard-earned wisdom...
...hopes, she says, to give Victoria "as natural a childhood as possible." Meanwhile, members of Sweden's Parliament are preparing a recommendation that the constitution be changed to allow a female succession to the throne. Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin is also speaking out for the change. His sentiment: "Monarchy for both sexes...
...Negligence. That worthy sentiment seems to turn Davidson's prose to pulp. When her irony departs, she sounds as preposterous as Cosmo fantasy: "He was a full professor, and yet there was about him a spirit of hijinks." The women's sex lives - their entire lives, in fact - seem like nothing so much as an interminable game of pinball- careening from one man to another with an awful earnestness, a flashing of lights and banging of flippers. Susie, who solves her frigidity with a vibrator, decides eventually that having slept with more than 100 men, "it was probably...