Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator Hubert Humphrey, .for example, earned $81,000 in speaking engagements in one year, George McGovern $80,000. (Humphrey has never been secretive about such benefits; a sign in his Waverly, Minn., home proclaims: THE HOUSE THAT WIND BUILT.) Yet the limitation is expected to pass. Explaining the prevailing sentiment, one supporter of the code said: "People who come to the Senate rich can't be made poor. But people who come to the Senate poor shouldn't leave rich...
...government defeat was the climax to a long and somewhat cynical campaign by Laborites and Tories alike to check the growing influence of nationalist sentiment in Scotland. Building on Scots' resentment at being treated like country cousins by Westminster -and fueled by the development of North Sea oil off Scotland's coast-the independence-minded Scottish National Party in the past six years has become second only to Labor as the most powerful party in Scotland. With many of Labor's traditionally safe seats in danger during the 1974 election campaigns, worried leaders came up with...
...Carter No. 59. Even without the old school tie, however. Turner would more than qualify for a top Government slot. Insists a Carter aide: "We have been looking in the last two weeks for different kinds of people, for a new face. Jimmy has high respect for Turner." This sentiment seems to be shared by the admiral's service colleagues, who admire his intellectual breadth, capacity for hard work and -what may be most important to the President-proven skills as a manager...
Most Americans will not support government policies and actions which promote racism and war, unless much of the anti-racist and anti-war sentiment of the 1960s is undone through the influence of a new wave of academic and popular reactionary ideologies. By trying to counter the growing influence of sociobiology and similar doctrines in various academic disciplines, we not only preserve scientific integrity but our hopes for a future free of racism...
Despite their ideological differences, Patrick and Patterson share one sentiment: contempt for the way Miller has run the 250,000-member union. Miller is the issue in the election...