Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would have under Sihanouk does not answer Shawcross' most forceful charge: that the Khmer rouge created the massive holocaust only because they had been "brutalized" by incessant American bombings and the actions of the U.S.-supplied Cambodian Army. This unsupported assertion has probably been the cause of more bad sentiment towards American involvement in Cambodia--and, indeed, anywhere else in the world--than any other aspect of American foreign policy in many years. But Shawcross' claim is almost completely false...
Other demonstrators, many of them members of the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD), described the protest as a success for drawing media attention and reminding six people that anti-registration sentiment still exists...
...speaker was Republican Economist Alan Greenspan, but the sentiment was shared by each of his colleagues on the TIME Board of Economists, which gathered last week to examine the economic outlook for 1981. To a man, the board agreed that the weakened U.S. economy simply cannot endure many more shocks and setbacks like those that have afflicted it for the past two years. The tone of the meeting, the fourth and final of a troubled year, was similar to that set by David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's designated new budget director, and New York Congressman Jack Kemp. Three weeks...
...also announced that it was dispatching a fact-finding mission to El Salvador; it will be headed by William D. Rogers, who served as Assistant Secretary of State in the Ford Administration. The ruling junta blamed the murders on right-wing terrorists bent on stopping any buildup of leftist sentiment...
...other critics who want to purge it of the male chauvinism that they find running all through its pages. Says the Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, a United Methodist mission official: "People are becoming increasingly sensitive to language that renders half the human race invisible." As it happens, such sentiment is strong in the National Council of Churches (N.C.C.), whose education division is overseeing the RSV revision. But the N.C.C.'s leaders have hesitated to alter the RSV radically, partly because the organization gets the royalties. The RSV has been a success largely because of its preservation of much...