Word: mood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government had finally decided to govern, rather than let Communist sabotage wreck its recovery efforts; and Western Germany was going through an economic resurgence that held out bright hope to all of Western Europe (see FOREIGN NEWS). Western strength was expressed still another way, and that was the changing mood and mettle of Western Europe's people...
Second-grade pupils were learning a poem which summed up much of Western Germany's mood: "Speckled autumn moves through the country with long steps and mighty hand. It bends the slender trees and it rustles the stout ones. Then the ripe apples and pears and apricots come tumbling down. The boys and girls shout: 'Hurrah, Uncle Autumn is here...
Wonder-Boy Welles has an imaginative way with a camera. His stark and gloomy settings create a fine mood for tragedy. The 11th Century Scotland of this movie is a rough, barbaric country with a castle jutting out of the sharp rock; hard-eyed horsemen gallop like wild west villains across the foggy landscape; the wide palace courtyard is full of mud puddles and pigs. Welles has thus succeeded in surrounding the plot with an atmosphere that makes all the crude violence believable; photographically, this mood is sustained. Dramatically, it is often violated, both by transpositions of text...
...safe prediction that Holy Cross will field the beefiest team on the schedule Saturday and the Crimson got in the mood to face this array of brawn yesterday by grinding through the longest scrimmage of the week...
...Since we're Ridlon the subject let's get down to the Brennan question of the hour," said the assistant, Fitkin the subject to his mood...