Word: mood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Extraordinary Privilege. While the House sweated, the Senate, which would probably have to take final responsibility for extracting Rankin's stinger, was in almost as waspish a mood last week. After listening to A.F.L.'s 75-year-old President Bill Green, as he doggedly resisted anything but outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law, Ohio's Robert Taft finally exploded in exasperation: "Mr. Green, I don't want to make a speech. But it seems to me you are claiming the most extraordinary privilege any organization ever claimed in the United States...
...American Medical Association have been spluttering with indignation. Determined to fight compulsory health insurance tooth & nail, the A.M.A. has also turned its back on such individually financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions (TIME, Dec. 13). In its fighting mood, the A.M.A. has even levied a $25 assessment on each of its 140,000 members. The $3,500,000 is to be used in an "education" campaign to tell the U.S. about the advantages of the "American system" of medical care (i.e., the status quo) as against Blue Cross-Blue Shield...
Between chores, newsmen called their families to break the bad news. Some began dialing other papers for jobs. But for many of the editorial crew of 101 it would be a tough winter; other Manhattan newspapers were in a cost-cutting mood...
While creating a novelist's mood, Callaghan drops a few loud hints. An English professor tells Tyndall about the new men's residence that the university needs; other faculty members complain of overcrowded classrooms. Even the university's library is mentioned. "I have to wait in line, and find that I can't get what I want," says a philosophy professor. "If you die with a million, Tyndall, why don't you leave it for a library...
When the politicians went to King Paul with a list of old names in a new arrangement, they found the monarch in a stern mood. He told them that they must form a really effective and representative government; otherwise, he would install Greece's most venerated soldier, General Alexander Papagos, as Premier. Papagos, who had driven the Italians back into Albania in 1941, would not come out of retirement unless he was given a free hand...