Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists signed the armistice. The terms left many Americans unhappy, but no one disputed the proposition that a diplomatic stalemate was preferable to a military stalemate. Dulles has been careful to keep up his relations with Korea's stubborn Syngman Rhee in the face of bitter anti-Rhee sentiment among U.S. allies. Aware that the armistice terms do not allow for a resumption of hostilities if the political conference is not held, Dulles expected the Reds to stall (as they have) on preparations for this meeting. The Communists know that they can scarcely improve on their present position...
...strongest single sentiment in Britain today is a vague and touching belief that the cold war might be ended if the U.S. and Russia could just be got to shake hands, like good sports, and talk things over. Malenkov, many articulate Britons argue, may not be such a bad chap at all; if only the stubborn Americans would listen to reason (preferably the voice of the BBC), a bright new age might dawn...
Dulles quoted another humble American, Abraham Lincoln: "There is something in the Declaration [of Independence] giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time." Then Dulles brought Lincoln's sentiment up to date by ringing a resonant change on the name of the sterile and negative policy associated with the word "containment." Of the American belief in liberty for all peoples. Dulles said: "We do not conceal that conviction, and no United States Government could contain...
...American Christianity looks very much divided even within the several official denominations, as among Methodists, Baptists and Lutherans, for example. Such divisions often appear to be determined more by sentiment than motivated by sound theological reasoning...
...film milks a few laughs by dressing Webb up as a scoutmaster and turning him loose on an overnight hike with his irreverent charges. Unfortunately, the whole thing soon turns from slapstick to sentiment as Webb and his wife (Frances Dee) decide to adopt Master Winslow. Edmund Gwenn does his twinkling best as a clergyman in on the plot to make a child-lover of Webb...