Word: mood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past, TIME'S editors have written many roundups on the mood of Europe in the spring. Perhaps the best remembered of them (we still get letters referring to it) was called Springtime in Europe and read, in part...
Spring brought work as well as play and immemorial festival. It also brought, as always after the cold days and long dark nights, a mood of revived hope. Europe needed it. For the mood of Western Europe was a mixture of anxieties as much as hopes, of discouragements as much as resolution. A great deal of the European mood was apparent in what people did and chatted about; something more became clear in the answers they gave in simultaneous surveys* of what they thought and expected...
...last week, Minority Leader Sam Rayburn did his best as a Canute. He cried that it was reckless, in these times, to invite deficits: "Hadn't we better stay in a position where we will have the money to defend our shores?" But the House was in no mood for debate or delay. When the vote came, 84 Democrats deserted the Administration. The overwhelming tide of passage...
...London's famed Economist (TIME, Feb. 2), found the U.S. state of mind very different from 1929, when he had made his first visit. Then, wrote Crowther in This Week magazine, "everybody you met . . . was sure that American business had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity. Now the mood is very different. Business is very good, certainly, but in every smoking room you are told the reasons why it can't stay that...
...trembling top."* That "wonderfully expressive phrase," said Crowther, exactly describes how the indexes of prices, sales and national income have risen to a top "higher than anybody believed possible, and for months have stayed there . . . just quivering up and down." It also described the "strangely apprehensive mood that I found wherever I went...