Word: euphoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quiet satisfaction, a shadow has fallen on the land. A few years down the road it will all work out, Germans assure one another, but most are aware that unification has proved -- and will continue to be -- a more difficult task than anyone expected amid last year's euphoria. There are times when it seems that Ossis and Wessis, as they sometimes contemptuously call each other, are growing further apart, not closer together...
...complicated way in which Americans have assessed the meaning of victory has led to some confusion about their feelings. The outpouring of relief that erupted when the fighting ended, for example, was first mistaken for euphoria and is now at times wrongly taken for chest-pounding superpatriotism. In fact, there were many reasons for the mood of celebration, and most of them are laudable...
...invaded Kuwait in August. In the anxious weeks that followed, U.S. consumer confidence plunged to levels not seen since the 1981-82 slump before rebounding on the strength of the swift American-led victory in the gulf war. But gauges of consumer confidence began falling as soon as the euphoria wore off and have tumbled in each of the past two months...
...euphoria proved to be short-lived, however, as the student activists were dealt a series of setbacks this year. Both in the courtroom and within Griswold Hall, where the office of Dean Robert C. Clark is located, the protesters ran into dead ends...
...euphoria started to fade. I began to wonder about schools that send out slick admission packages that cost $3 to mail. I was puzzled why my peers were so thunderstruck by the name of a school they knew little about. At the same time, of course, I felt like a fool even to question the worth of places like Harvard...