Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...society ought to kill criminals. It is not at all clear that capital punishment deters would-be murderers better than the threat of life imprisonment. Yet there is a stubborn popular belief in the unique deterrent power of the death penalty. Even if deterrence were unequivocally disproved, however, public sentiment might still favor capital punishment. The death penalty, say proponents, is necessary to demonstrate that society takes its laws seriously; retribution seems a natural human urge. As the homicide rate doubled during the 1960s and early '70s, however, federal courts were becoming ever more scrupulous in their review...
Aversion to the U.S. was, during the last century, a sentiment shared by conservatives and those nostalgic for the old Spanish order. Today this sentiment has changed its stripes and colors: it is the revolutionaries who have declared their inflexible antipathy toward the U.S. This, understandably, was a natural reaction against the American policy of expansion and domination of Mexico. It is a policy that, since the middle of the last century, has oscillated between the big stick and benign neglect...
...efforts bear fruit as a full-scale peace movement blossomed on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, this movement can already claim major victories. A 10-state nuclear freeze referendum won overwhelming approval in the November elections, and--largely in response to that expression of public sentiment--the House recently rejected President Reagan's dangerous and costly plans to build a nuclear-tipped MX missile...
...furor over the MX was that the Administration made no attempt to restore production funds for the Pershing II missile, which it is scheduled to begin deploying in Europe next year. Addabbo's subcommittee had eliminated those funds last month. After three successive Pershing test failures, congressional sentiment is opposed to full production until the missile's ailments are cured. Even so, the Administration apparently hopes to save the intermediate-range missile in conference committee deliberations between the House and the Senate, which has approved Pershing production...
Despite the coldly premeditated nature of the slaying, public sentiment in Cheyenne began shifting to the alleged killers as details about the Jahnke household emerged. Said Richard's high school ROTC instructor, Major Robert Vegvary: "Something monstrous and horrible must have happened at home." Indeed, to hear local residents tell it, something had. Though a devoted father, the elder Jahnke was described by those who knew him as an ultrastrict disciplinarian with an explosive temper that often boiled over into physical violence. He doled out severe beatings to his children for the most minor infractions; his Puerto Rican-born...