Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parted ways with White, who it had endorsed four times: "Of the half-dozen candidates now running," declared a Globe editorial, "any of them would be preferable to Kevin White in 1983." Since then, not only has the criticism increased, but, strangely, it has spawned another, more benign sentiment: White shouldn't run because, hurt by the corruption issue, he has no chance of winning. The New York Times jumped into the act last month with three long articles portraying White's career as approaching a tragic end thanks to his machine Time magazine chimed in with a similar piece...
...long-building public sentiment to get tough with violent criminals, to kill the killers, seems on the verge of putting the nation's 15 electric chairs, nine gas chambers, several gallows and ad hoc firing squads back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and peculiarly American technique for killing, lethal anesthesia injections, which could increase public acceptance of executions. Experts on capital punishment, both pro and con, agree that as many as ten to 15 inmates could be put to death this year, a total not reached since the early 1960s. "People on death rows...
Execution by injection may be too new to have its tough-guy slang like "fry." But last month outside the prison at Huntsville, Texas, the sentiment was the same. As Charlie Brooks waited to be injected, a crowd of 300 gathered to celebrate. Some of the pro-execution revelers, mostly college students, carried placards; KILL 'EM IN VEIN, said one. "Most of the people I know are for capital punishment," declared Paula Huffman, 21, a Sam Houston State University senior at the deathwatch. "And so am I. Definitely." Nevertheless, when the moment arrived, just after midnight...
...this century. DuBois believed such Black men lived behind and within a veil. He described how his son was born behind the barrier, and how the almost immutable nature of the experience would give shape to the child's life. DuBois' description is in Victorian style, but his sentiment is stated clearly enough for the modern reader to understand...
...dilemma; all along the crisis was worsened by denials that it existed. Stephen Marris, an economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, explains that only recently has it become "respectable" to admit that the debt problem will not go away in a hurry. That sentiment, thanks partly to the Mexico and Brazil rescues and Regan's call for new solutions, has now been reinforced...