Word: euphoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Somalis eager to touch American flesh, gesture their relief, smile their thanks. People skills seemed more important than military ones as the need to establish a friendly rapport battled with the demand to maintain order. In those first hours, it was hard not to be swept up in the euphoria. Declared Fatima Mohammed, 32, a mother of seven: "I'd like the U.S. troops to stay here for life...
Barnes sees communism, as practiced in the Soviet Union and its former satellites "as a corruption of a set of principles, at base idealistic which went wrong." he recalls being impressed by Gunter Grass's essays, "Two States-One Nation?) which, although enormously popular during the euphoria which accompanied the unification of Germany, were eerily prescient, foretelling the economic and social troubles which are now plaguing that country...
...marked the third anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 54th commemoration of Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, when Nazi street gangs left the nation's synagogues and Jewish businesses in flames and nearly 100 dead. The remembrances of these moments of national euphoria and historic shame mix uneasily -- never more so than this year, when the echoes of that distant event drowned out those from the recent past...
...amounted to "a pattern of deception." But the President was saying these things in places like North and South Carolina, New Jersey, Florida -- states that have been secure Republican bastions during recent national elections. Campaigning so late in the race on formerly safe turf suggested, despite all the attendant euphoria, a certain desperation among the Bush forces...
...cheerleading slogan for Africa, coined by Tanzania's Julius Nyerere shortly after his country won its independence, was "We Must Run While They Walk." It caught the mood of euphoria and ambition, the dash of social heroism. Now the sense of heroic hope is mostly gone. Vast stretches of Africa are in worse shape than when they became independent. People routinely live at subsistence levels. Says Denys Lawrie, a mining consultant who works in West Africa: "Africans have wasted 20 years." The world's attention has gone elsewhere, and African leaders know their rations of aid will be smaller...