Word: sentimentals
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...Harvard students, this can mean leaving for a mission site after their first year or their 19th birthday. For Jarvis, this was not an entirely pleasant experience. After a month of training in Utah, he left in the summer of 1997 for Spain, a country notorious for anti-Mormon sentiment. Two years of knocking on doors to offer prepared lectures on the Mormon doctrine was “really difficult a lot of the time,” relates Jarvis. “I couldn’t help thinking how irritated I’d be if someone...
...thought that we were insulated from [the recession],’’ said Miller. “The bottom line is, you do have to face this. The general student sentiment here is, ‘isn’t this a mess...
...member of the local gay community, says the gay scene has become so visible "partly out of need. The community here can be so oppressive, it almost creates the need for a thriving gay and lesbian community." Outsiders visiting Utah are frequently shocked by the degree of anti-Mormon sentiment that is expressed in conversation by non-Mormons, often quite openly. "People say things about Mormons that they wouldn't dream of saying about blacks or Hispanics or Jews or whatever," says Zimmerman...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even the marginal assistance it gave in the financial and military areas came only after much heel-dragging by the regime. The Saudis are still loathe to explain their support for the U.S. anti-terror campaign to their own people because of widespread, popular anti-Western sentiment...
...city shares the sentiment: every street sign, lamppost, bus and taxi is bedecked in official logos; billboards have been raised just to welcome the hordes of interlopers who will take over this city for the next 16 days. At the airport, the arrivals area is stuffed with "Welcome" signs and banners, multi-lingual greetings and beaming IOC representatives...