Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab world. But in an age of spreading nationalism, the hatred of neighboring Arab peoples for Israel may grow rather than decrease with the passage of time. The presence of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arab refugees in neighboring countries can be counted on to keep popular sentiment against Israel at a high pitch. For the Arabs, Israel is likely to remain "Palestine Irridenta," even though there is simply no place else for the Israelis...
...President paid a visit to the renowned Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where for the first time in memory the organ boomed out The Star-Spangled Banner. Foreign statesmen on official tours usually refrain from visiting the shrine, possibly out of fear of offending the once ardent anticlerical sentiment that still lingers faintly among many educated Mexicans. But at the church, Archbishop Luis María Martínez said to Nixon: "You have shown understanding in coming to this shrine, for it is the heart of Mexico." When Nixon came out, the Mexicans waiting outside showered him with...
...Bluster? Is it because Bluster, who is inclined to booze, resembles "a walking lump of drink-produced excrescences?" No, no, it is not that at all. It is because Bluster's courting technique is so blistering-"a cold methodical intriguing piece of secularity, without sympathy or sentiment, talent or tenderness." It cannot be compared to the courting methods of manly Nat, who cries from the bottom of his honest heart: "O speak unreservedly to me, Miss Somersdown; if your heart be free and unfettered ... if there be any means by which my unmitigable devotion can receive as devoted...
...petition," Van Doren said, "will test sentiment for a dance. The idea is not to exclude the opera," he said, "but if possible to have both." Last night the petition had been placed in every entry to be signed...
...fanciful world of comic strips, Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp and Ham (Joe Palooka) Fisher have at least one very real sentiment in common. They despise each other. On public platforms and to newspaper editors all over the U.S.. Fisher has long charged that Capp is a purveyor of pornography. To back up his charge, Fisher has carted about huge reproductions of Capp's cartoons with the supposed pornography marked. Bluff, rollicking Cartoonist Capp, who started out as Fisher's apprentice 22 years ago, also gets off some free-handed statements. In an Atlantic Monthly...