Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Gore: "If for the second year in a row the supporters of international trade kept silent, the sentiment for world trade might start to wither on the vine. And the rest of the world might get the wrong idea of what we really stand for." Gore's ideas about world trade go back to his early days in Carthage, Tenn., when, as a young schoolteacher, he made friends with a fellow townsman named Cordell Hull. Sometimes, when Gore met Hull on the Courthouse Square, they would sit on the roots of a big sugar-maple tree...
Last week, casting sentiment to the winds, the city fathers of New Delhi took action at last against the 4,000-odd free cows and bulls at large in their city. A task force of 100 picked cow catchers, armed with ropes and long poles, gathered each night at dusk near the municipal post office for briefing. In deep secrecy, lest the cow owners foil their plans, the posses deployed to strategic spots in the city, blocking off the ends of streets and side alleys. Their main idea was to trap the vagrants and drive them into a temporary pound...
...implore her, to aspire and range." One night the professor releases Percy and, sure enough by dawn, "romantic and full of nostalgia " he is back. Gently, Percy lays his hand upon Edwina. "No questions disturbed her soul ... She welcomed him home." But the professor, unscientifically overcome by the sentiment that he is a friend of the family, modestly averts his eyes...
...Honduran border under exiled Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas. A retired air force colonel, pretending to check the engine of a sports plane, zoomed mysteriously off to El Salvador, landing in a meadow en route to pick up a friend. Independent newspapers were reporting the hemisphere's growing sentiment against Arbenz' Communist-coddling with a factual thoroughness that the Reds regarded as downright traitorous. One midnight last week, with pressure building up, Arbenz assembled his Cabinet, which decreed a 30-day state of emergency suspending all civil liberties...
Together they brought out a prototype of the flowery Christmas card, saw it catch on, and founded Boston's Rust Craft Publishers, Inc. (now a United Printers subsidiary). Cashing in on sentiment and anniversaries, they built Rust Craft into a business with a $10,200,000 gross last year...