Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no doubt about the sincerity of pro-Allied sentiment in Rumania. But toward Russia the attitude of Rumanians has gone from bad to better to worse. Before the Russians entered Bucharest, the people were plain scared. The Red Army entered the city and quietly passed through, leaving small contingents behind...
...dumpy little man, silent with strangers, responsive among friends, dead at 39 of consumption, Brown was a far better writer than later generations admitted. He filled his novels with seductions, crimes, violence and a robust 18th-Century sentiment, as well as the ghostly trappings of Gothic romances. But the novels "were singularly original, poetic and impressive," and Brown "added a third dimension to the Gothic novel; he suffused his mechanical devices with true horrors of the mind. . . . He was a precursor, in more than one respect, of Poe, Melville, Hawthorne and Henry James. Brown represented, in other words, the native...
Meantime the U.S. continued to show a powerful sentiment for world freedom of the press...
...never adopted as an idea. Decisions were usually taken according to the fashionable sentiment of the time...
Experience. "The people of the United States will decide this fall whether they wish to turn over this 1944 job, this world-wide job, to inexperienced or immature hands, to those who opposed lend-lease and international cooperation . . . until they could read the polls of popular sentiment; or whether they wish to leave it to those who saw the danger from abroad, and met it headon...