Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although after the war those charges were never proved and Wodehouse was never brought up on formal charges, public sentiment in England weighed heavily against him, and as late as 1975, when Wodehouse died at the age of 93, there were still many who believed him at best a Nazi sympathizer. In Wodehouse at War, Iain Sproat, a member of the British Parliament and a long-time admirer of the humorist, presents strong evidence that the charges against Wodehouse were unfounded...
Indeed, after the war, British authorities conceded that they had no case against Wodehouse and made no charges against him. But, as Sproat states, while by a jury one must be proven guilty, by the public one must often be proven innocent. Sentiment raged against Wodehouse following the war. The British people were still stinging with the memory of the notorious "Lord Haw-Haw" who during the war had terrified civilians over the airwaves...
Mubarak's government, which is clearly trying to arouse public sentiment against Muslim extremists, claims that the five groups were all fundamentalist organizations linked by a conspiracy "to fight the government and seize power." The ambitions of the conspirators were thwarted on Sept. 25, when many were arrested during Sadat's wide-ranging crackdown on dissenters. Concluding that they were not strong enough to stage a coup, the plotters reportedly concentrated on just assassinating the President. After his death, they also thought of dropping bombs from rooftops on the funeral procession as it wound its way through Cairo...
...When I pray 'Thy Kingdom come on earth," I mean I want Atlanta to look like heaven." The author of that lofty sentiment, Andrew Young, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was elected mayor of Atlanta last week. But any hopes Young has to make the city more heavenly may depend on his ability to heal some decidedly uncelestial bitterness sowed in his campaign's final days. Young, 49, a former Congressman and lieutenant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., accused his opponent, white businessman and State Legislator Sidney Marcus, 53, of trying...
...pacifist sentiment spreads across the Continent, Mitterrand's attitude is comforting to some fellow Europeans. West Germany's Schmidt has found the French President's public support helpful in rejecting demands by the left wing of his Social Democratic Party that he renege on the 1979 NATO decision to base new U.S. medium-range missiles in Western Europe. In Britain, where anti-NATO feelings thrive in the Labor opposition, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government welcomes Mitterrand's position. "Such a firm stand is very helpful coming from a Socialist," a top official explains...