Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Lerner said that the Legion's protest was based on supposition, rather than fact, and that its success was a sign of the growing sentiment that accucation, no matter how unfounded, is tantamount to guilt...
...good. Yet in the past decade, the Negro has made tremendous progress not, in the main, through new legislation, but through a long series of court decisions interpreting the basic law of the land, the Constitution. These rulings, it was usually warned, were "out of step" with popular sentiment and would provoke trouble; yet, accepted virtually without protest, they have quietly accomplished a variety of things, from forcing Southern state universities...
Through such automatic dismissal, Perry said, universities would virtually turn over to government their authority to hire and fire. "Even when individuals have been convicted of a crime, or have given offense to public sentiment, the institution must decide, in each case, whether this disqualifies him from serving the institution," he said...
...beloved among her subjects. For all that she had been born in England, a cousin of Queen Victoria and a great-granddaughter of George III, the shy, penniless German Princess who in 1893 married the future George V, then Duke of York, was not welcomed with open arms. British sentiment was affronted by the fact that she had previously been affianced to the Duke's elder brother, heir presumptive to Victoria's throne. Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, whose elegant dress earned him the nickname Prince Collar & Cuffs, died of flu six weeks after his betrothal. His place...
...five dashing, bulletproofed days, the Communist dictator of Yugoslavia was the guest of anti-Communist Britain, the first Red chief of state ever to visit the country. For both guest and hosts, it was a visit not of sentiment but of self-interest. The British hoped to exploit Tito's break from Moscow and to fix him solidly in the anteroom of the Western alliance. Tito was out to get political and economic value for his heresy against Moscow...