Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allowed later. "We're all trying to work things out." Furthermore, Rivers' own advisers came out in favor of taking 19-and 20-year-olds first. There was also agreement on reducing deferments for graduate students, although here the President was prepared to go beyond the prevailing sentiment in the Armed Services Committee. He would deny deferment to all graduate students except those studying to be physicians, dentists and ministers. Rivers is disposed to grant waivers to others in fields associated with defense needs, such as physics...
...Powell had taken earlier in the week. By an overwhelming majority of nearly 3 to 1, rebellious House members overrode their leaders, scrapped the recommendations of a select committee and voted to exclude Powell from the 90th Congress for his well-documented wrongdoings. The vote reflected not only their sentiment but the nation's as well...
...American people by promising an easy escape from the war. We can't get students (or workers, for that matter) out. We can only build a movement. The job of building a movement strong enough to get the U.S. out of Vietnam and other countries is very difficult. Sentiment is already widespread and growing against the war. But people are unclear about why the U.S. is there and what to do about it. They are anxious to find niches of personal safety; they are divided in many ways against themselves. Radicals have to fight the illusion of individual outs...
Necessity rather than sentiment keeps alive another of the Bulletin's traditions--shoestring financing. Socking 17,000 subscribers seven dollars yearly for a subscription, the Bulletin still has only $160,000 to pay all the cost of the 17 issues published each year. With its tiny staff, the magazine manages to finish in the black most years. 1966-67 won't be one of them though; the Bulletin had to settle a substantial libel suit for calling a Hollywood movie director a "Stalinist type...
...agree that this inquiry will necessarily disclose an irresistible ground swell for Romney. A Gallup poll of Republicans reported that they think Richard Nixon would be the better candidate; the spread was 52% to 40%, with the balance undecided. On the other hand, Louis Harris assayed Republican and independent sentiment and found Romney ahead of Nixon...