Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christmas approaches and the most hectic and trying year in his memory draws to a close, President Nixon will face a particularly severe test. Congress will recess late this week, sending members home for a month of fence mending and careful probing of sentiment about the President among those whom Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott calls "the people in the drugstores." What the legislators hear may well determine Nixon's future, for most would agree with Republican National Chairman George Bush that "the momentum for resignation or impeachment will [have to] come from the people." Adds Scott: "Every member...
...hard evidence of "high crimes and misdemeanors"-the Constitution's grounds for impeachment. But some legal scholars claim that the President may be guilty of up to 78 impeachable offenses. Whether Congress tries him on any of them, however, will depend largely on what members learn about grassroots sentiment during their holiday...
...would stand in the way of building a strong modern world power. With the urge to oust the imperialists from all of Asia, Chinese military expenditures reached new peaks. In its attempt to achieve lost self-respect, international prestige and world power, the Chinese leadership appealed to the nationalist sentiment that pervaded the Han majority, successfully merging its theory of revolutionary communism with the seemingly contradictory impulse of national pride...
...United States, viewing Israel as a bridgehead of Western sentiment--"a bulwark against the non-Christian world," right-wing publisher William Loeb once called it--was happy to provide Israel with most of the arms and diplomatic support it needed. The Soviet Union, evidently sharing the United States' view, was happy not only to replace the U.S. as Egypt's supplier of arms and help with the Aswan Dam when John Foster Dulles grew disgusted with Egyptian president Nasser's neutralism and nationalizations, but also to go the United States one better, sending technicians where the United States sent arms...
Many said as much. Wayne Aspinall, former Chairman of the House Interior Committee, said long before the current crunch, for instance, that he was "truly frightened by the potential conflict between pro-Israel sentiment in this country and our increasing reliance on Arab oil. I believe the U.S. is about to be caught in a Middle Eastern power play...