Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born of War. Dr. Louis McCabe, director of the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District, was in no mood last week to wait for the scientists to develop elaborate new testing techniques, try them out and finally announce their findings. When McCabe's job (policing the air) was created 18 months ago, the crime of air pollution had been on the increase for seven years-ever since war orders made Los Angeles a small-parts arsenal. With near-dictatorial powers to shut down plants which disobey his smoke-curbing orders, McCabe has persuaded industry to appropriate $10 million...
Gaiety, high spirits, even joy surge up in Author Churchill at the thought of the hour's magnificence and his place in it-to stand, supreme at last, in an hour of desperate hope, and to find his mood echoed in every city and hamlet of Britain. The prospect of Nazi invasion is inspiring, providing "the chance of striking a blow at the mighty enemy which would resound throughout the world...
Despair Among the Tunghsi. Daylight does nothing to light up the funereal mood of the city. The morning rush hour crowds on Chungshan Road are too dispirited even to shove or grouse as they wait for buses or pedicabs...
Here are a couple of the blessings Mr. Toomey's bill could provide, if passed: No one could advocate any peaceable change in either the state or federal constitutions without losing his right to vote and hold office. If a future legislature felt in a particularly conservative mood, it could pass a law under this amendment preventing anybody to the left of--Mr. Toomey, for example--from voting or holding office...
...went on to say that his landscape with girls in bathing suits had been "motivated by a mood of joyfulness." ¶Ben Shahn's 73 words were as incisive as his art: "I'll say this much: that art is my particular form of speech, and what ever I feel about men who sing and play guitars, I've said in the present picture...