Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considine explained that his Committee, an outgrowth of wide undergraduate sentiment that the Council could be made more democratic, would keep its original pledge not to disband until its suggestions are duly considered by the Council. He reiterated the group's two basic recommendations: to supplant elections-at-large by direct mechanisms and to allot to the basic units of the undergraduate body, the Houses, proportional delegation to the Council...
Congenial Atmosphere. Before publication of the Advocate's editorial, the Commonweal, liberal Catholic weekly, took a strikingly similar position: "There is a strong sentiment among Protestants ... for joint action with Catholics on world problems. . . . It is up to Catholics to accept such gestures in the spirit in which they are offered: to greet them in all sincerity and without suspicion...
Wall Streeters had their explanations. The bearish sentiment, touched off by A.T. & T., had been caused by: 1) the U.S. ultimatum to Tito, 2) Chrysler's announced shutdown, 3) "discouraging" second-quarter earnings. Moreover, A. T. & T., being a pivotal stock with one of the highest quotations on the market, had a disproportionate effect on the Dow-Jones index. Heavy trading in A.T. & T. had carried the whole industrial index below the market's resistance point, scared holders of other stocks into selling...
...becoming totalitarian robots, were not taking and would not take much downtreading from socialists or anybody else. Some might mutter that Morrison wanted to be a policeman "like his father." But Morrison knows his Britain; he put up a sign in London classrooms expressing a most anti-authoritarian sentiment: "The teacher may be wrong. Think for yourself...
...London in protest ("I personally am not in a state of mind to conduct [because of my] sadness for unjust political decisions."). Suddenly the city of Lucerne got word that the Maestro was willing to play two concerts there-the first one five days from date. Toscanini had a sentimental memory of Lucerne: it was the city where he had conducted the night before war was declared in 1939. But sentiment had a rider. Toscanini wanted a guarantee of 90,000 francs ($21,060) to help rebuild Milan's bombed La Scala Opera House...