Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of like an inoculation," declared New Hampshire Forester Robert Breck, who had voted for tickets carrying Nixon's name in eleven elections. "You hate to get it because you know it's going to hurt. But when it's over, you're glad...
...people of Beaver Falls, Pa. (pop. 14,000), a steel-fabricating town north of Pittsburgh, slowly retreated from their support of Richard Nixon with each Watergate shock (TIME, Nov. 12). Now they are glad that the long ordeal is over, but they bear him no ill will...
...through a spell of euphoria, we are so glad to have this Nixon business behind us. But bear in mind that no amount of mood can change problems, particularly economic problems. It may be that Gerald Ford will have such an enormous reserve of popular confidence upon which to draw that he can do things unpopular and unbearable if done by anyone else. After all, what people want at the moment is good, straightforward, simple, believable government. They think they are going to get it, and they are happy about...
...Agnew was relegated to the obscurity in which he now finds himself. Nixon has spoken publicly as if he intends to resume a public role. If he is serious, it will interfere with the so-called healing process, but if he just disappears, large numbers of people will be glad...
...some investors are shunning the Eurocurrency market altogether. Among them are the Arabs, who are putting their oil dollars and pounds in safer havens like New York. Some Continental bankers are just as glad. They fear that massive deposits from a single source would make them vulnerable to sudden withdrawals that could lead to more bank failures...