Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quarter of a lifetime ago I really believed that students would change the world. Antiwar sentiment was growing: I joined other high school and college students to help organize the October 1969 moratorium in Allentown, Pa. We talked for long hours among ourselves and with others about what the United States government was doing in Southeast Asia, and why it should be stopped; we raised money and printed leaflets; we lined up speakers. When a high school principal refused to declare October 15 a legal day of absence and threatened suspension for moratorium participants, we spent hours in the county...
Antijunta Sentiment. At the invitation of the Caramanlis government, former BBC Director-General Sir Hugh Greene is doing a survey of Greek television and recommending ways to move the medium away from the staple fare of junta days: reruns of U.S. situation comedies. The army still controls one of Greece's two channels, but Parliament is now debating legislation to release it from the military's grip...
...military supplies, economic aid and political support. Nonetheless, there is no treaty that commits the U.S. to defend or aid Israel. The alliance between the two nations is based on assurances of support by a succession of U.S. Presidents, and by the diminishing but still large pro-Israel sentiment in the U.S. that involves Gentiles as well as Jews...
...indecisiveness that characterized Constantine's dealing with the hated junta, the failure of his attempt to dislodge the colonels in December of 1967, and the silence he maintained for most of his seven years in exile further eroded what sentiment remained for restoring the King to power. During the prereferendum campaign, Constantine emphasized his willingness to accept a purely ceremonial role as constitutional monarch. The voters, however, were not inclined to trust a man whom many still hold responsible for the bitter experience of the past seven years...
...That sentiment may force our Govern ment to withdraw its support from Is rael. Israel will stand alone; she may even fall. Not because they are evil, but because they are cold, Americans may help add a chapter to the long history of at tempts to destroy the Jewish people...