Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal last April for a summit meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and his speech at Illinois' Eureka College-his alma mater-outlining proposals for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the Soviet Union. Reagan's address was partly in response to a growing grass-roots sentiment for a freeze on nuclear weapons. Six days after he returns from Europe, the President will visit the United Nations in New York City to address a special General Assembly session on disarmament...
...Resident or visiting Americans encountered no demonstrations urging " Yanqui go home." Nor were there any anti-American mobs of the sort that pelted Vice President Richard Nixon with eggs in 1958 and forced Governor Nelson Rockefeller to cancel official visits to Chile, Peru and Venezuela in 1969. Although popular sentiment has been running in Argentina's favor, the most violent reactions have been the burning of a few British and U.S. flags in Caracas...
...President shot back. But then he added: "I'm kidding. I think we'll be meeting." Reagan's flippant remark, while inappropriate, reflected optimism within the White House that the President's arms-control speech, and Moscow's answer, will defuse domestic antinuclear sentiment and help smooth the way for his forthcoming trip to Western Europe...
...this quality of sassy innocence and calculated sentiment that endeared the Beatles to the world, this new material is a welcome reminder that the foundations of the group were built on solid rock. Memory, sentiment, tragedy and official cultural status make it easy to forget that the Beatles were a scruffy bunch of working-class rock brats. It was a great part of their strength and some of their glory. Although The Beatles at the Beeb includes a version of the lamentable 'Til There Was You, there is also an esoteric tune titled I Just Don't Understand...
Every word hauls some basic cargo or else can be shrugged aside as vacant sound. Indeed, almost any word can, in some use, take on that extra baggage of bias or sentiment that makes for the truly manipulative word. Even the pronoun it becomes one when employed to report, say, that somebody has what it takes. So does the preposition in when used to establish, perhaps, that zucchini quiche is in this year: used just so, in all but sweats with class bias. The emotion-heavy words that are easiest to spot are epithets and endearments: blockhead, scumbum, heel, sweetheart...