Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very strong sentiment on the part of a large number of faculty members has developed against the President's policy, although the opposition is far from unanimous. The feeling of a portion of this group is that expressed in Bruner's letter, namely, that the Church has been destroyed as a symbol of academic unity, as a place "where the diversity of religious impulse can be communally expressed...
Leaving Washington for the ten-day Easter recess, many a member of Congress took with him a firm conviction that he was going to find tax-cut sentiment running strong back home. Far from it, says roving Public-Opinion Canvasser Samuel Lubell, 46, self-styled "old doorbell ringer," whose intimate knowledge of the home front has given him a record of remarkable accuracy in calling the last two presidential elections...
Diefenbaker's vision called for the mineral development of the vast, empty northland for Canada's exclusive benefit. Some observers detected tinny overtones of anti-American sentiment in the vision's emphasis on economic nationalism and Diefenbaker's veiled warnings to foreign owners of Canadian resource industries...
Vanguard's rocketmen, too devoted to believe in anything but ultimate success, gilded their worries with sentiment. As the moment for last week's shoot approached, one man fastened a St. Christopher's medal inside the bird, after producing a formal equipment-change memo on which was printed, as the reason for the change...
Whatever tax cut is made, almost everyone agrees it must be made fast to be effective. Though California's Senator William F. Knowland thinks Congress will wait until June before making any tax cut, congressional sentiment is strong to cut taxes in April if the recession is deepening. A lengthy debate over what excise taxes should be cut might further check consumer buying. In Canada, for example, the government dawdled over an auto excise cut last year. Consumers stopped buying in expectation of the cut-and Canadian auto production was seriously hurt...