Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was a growing sentiment that perhaps it was time for the revolution to move off the streets. This sentiment was expressed by Whitney Young, director of the National Urban League, at his organization's national convention in Miami. "A speech is not a program," said Young. "A rally or a demonstration does not guarantee a job or prepare anyone for one." To consolidate the Negro's "revolution of fulfillment," said Young, requires the highest sense of responsibility: "While Negroes expect equality from whites, they must demand excellence from themselves...
...Senate takes with dedicated seriousness its traditional role of watchdog on foreign policy, stemming from its constitutional powers of advice and consent on treaties and the appointment of ambassadors. Senate sentiment about present U.S. policy toward Viet Nam therefore becomes of vital concern. How do the members of the Senate feel about Viet Nam? Last week TIME'S congressional correspondents interviewed almost a score of the Senate's members-a sampling ranging across regional, party and ideological lines. Among those who were not interviewed were Senators whose views have long been on the record-such as Oregon Democrat...
...Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson: "The Senate's current sentiment is not so much disquiet as uncertainty. We all want to support the President, and we're going to support the President, but we don't see much headway. Where does it end? We don't know. That's disturbing and somewhat distressing...
...sensitive reading on how the people of the country feel about President Johnson and his leadership. For this part of the story, TIME reporters across the country interviewed men and women in all pursuits-businessmen, laborers, farmers, professional men, housewives-not merely polling them, but testing mood and sentiment as well...
Hugo could not know that, for all their sentiment, Sarah found diamonds a mite conventional. Her taste tended to more sensuous things-she could not resist the sinuous ruby-eyed snake bracelet and ring designed by Art Nouveau Painter Alphonse Mucha and crafted by Jewelsmith Georges Fouquet for her première in Cleopatra, went in hock (she was frequently broke, though her earnings topped $9,000,000) for about $2,000 to have it. To make sure she paid, Fouquet turned up at the theater box office regularly each week to collect his share of the receipts...