Word: euphoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike the feeling of euphoria I have gotten for the past three years after handing in that last blue book, this time around I developed a sinking feeling in my stomach as I realized that by finishing my final exam I was ending my career at Harvard...
While the class of 1947 could cherish the euphoria of being the first to learn of the nation's plan for European reconstruction, the class of 1948 spent their senior year watching the nation work out the day-to-day details...
Indian Muslims--more than 120 million strong--fear that the swelling of Hindu pride will increase sectarian tensions. The nuclear tests should not be an occasion for "jingoistic euphoria," warned the Hindu, a national daily. But since the B.J.P. has a long history of whipping up just such sentiments to improve its political standing, it seems inevitable that Vajpayee and company will try to ride India's new membership in the nuclear club all the way to a majority government...
...ayes have it, British Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted Thursday in his bid to coax voters to deliver a resounding 'yes' on the Irish peace accord in Friday's referendum. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand reports that anxiety over a "no" vote had increased after the initial euphoria over the deal gave way to mounting fear in the Protestant community -- spooked by the dire warnings of rejectionists -- that the early release of convicted IRA terrorists would set killers loose among them. Blair was at pains to reassure voters today to stress that parties committed to violence would be isolated...
More of a big deal than he'd expected, perhaps. Although Varmus and other officials were careful to stress that tamoxifen is a potentially deadly drug with serious risks and unpleasant side effects, that message was all but lost in the initial euphoria. Breast cancer justifiably terrifies American women--so badly that many latched on to the discovery and ignored the downside...