Word: euphoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Support for Abstinence. Too often the government has set unreachable goals and succumbed to the euphoria of issuing reports and statistics rather than taking action. Next year, for example, it is promising to put up 10,000 more billboards with such slogans as "Use the Loop" and to show slides at intermissions in 5,000 movie theaters. For the vast propaganda drive that it needs, however, a mere $1,330,000 has been budgeted. So uncertain is the trumpet for birth control in India that the official most responsible for selling the urgency of contraceptives-Health and Family Planning Minister...
...reason was simply that the euphoria, in his view, was getting out of hand. And mindful of past occasions when rosy prognostications had ended in a nationwide letdown, the President decided last week that it was time to inject some sober realism into the mood...
...clubs strive to provide their members with the sensation of a man suspended half-way down in his swimming pool, breathing through an squalung--a sort of nullo-euphoria. The club that is most successful in denying the existence of a world outside is the Porcellian...
...Viet Nam, where years of frustration have given U.S. officials a painful inoculation against euphoria, old hands almost embarrassedly admitted that things were looking up. "I'm almost afraid to say it," allowed an intelligence officer in Saigon, "but I wonder if the Viet Cong aren't hurting-and maybe even hurting badly...
...Look! It's Bob Hope!" cried one canal dweller as the aquatic parade set houseboats arocking on a Bangkok klong. Well, almost. On his far-flung tour of the Far East last week, Hubert Horatio Humphrey everywhere displayed his infectious euphoria, dispensed pharmaceutical advice and ad-libbed some passable one-liners. Before leaving South Viet Nam, he was invited by Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu to come back and hunt an elephant some time. "I spend most of my time at home," replied Humphrey, "hunting elephants...