Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some respects, the OTC proposal does not go far enough. To be really effective, it would need powers of enforcement, but Congressional sentiment currently opposes such controls. As it stands, the organization could at least help gain the removal of "discriminatory restrictions" against 'United States' exports. By promoting the conversion of currency, OTC could encourage investments in underdeveloped and war-torn countries...
...looks like the Administration is knuckling under to Congress. I deplore the fact that the Administration will not stand up to either Republican or Democratic sentiment," he commented...
...much of its desperately needed dollar income for petroleum imports. Many clear-thinking Brazilians, well aware that Petrobras lacks the capital and technical skill to undertake large-scale oil exploration, are convinced that the 1953 law stunts the nation's economic growth. But nationalistic sentiment remains overwhelmingly strong. How strong it still is became evident last week in the Brazilian Senate, which voted on a bill to amend the Petrobras law and permit 30-year oil concessions to private Brazilian firms. The proposal made no mention of non-Brazilian capital, but it would presumably have permitted some participation...
...song entitled "Flip, Flop and Fly" the line occurs "When I get lonely, I jump on the telephone." ON first hearing, this sentiment seems somewhat ridiculous, if not downright neurotic. You try to visualize someone stamping and kicking and jumping on the telephone because he is lonely. It just doesn't seem right. Then you think of substituting "at" for "on," and the line begins to take on new meaning. When you visualize a person "jumping at" the telephone, it is an easy step from there to the final explication, "When I am lonely, I jump up from where...
...Said Eden: "It is not part of our purpose to cause Germany to collapse economically. I say that not out of any love for Germany, but because a starving and bankrupt Germany in the midst of Europe would poison all of us who are her neighbors. That is not sentiment. It is common sense." But at Yalta, Eden admitted that "there had yet been no [British] Cabinet discussions" on plans for postwar Germany...