Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight edge crept into his voice when someone brought up the subject of the Dixiecrat rebels. They are not good Democrats, Harry Truman snapped. But except for that one outburst his whole mood was one of friendly conciliation...
...general in New York, who was invited by the U.S. to go home last August after Oksana Kasenkina jumped from his consulate window. Now chief of the Soviet Foreign Office press section, Lomakin turned up for Foreign Minister Vishinsky's first official reception last week in an expansive mood. To foreign correspondents he declared that the U.S. maintains "the world's worst censorship." He went on to explain that the U.S. press is controlled by at least three sets of censors. Lomakin ticked them off: first the Post Office Department, secondly businessmen and advertisers, and thirdly the State...
...return to the U.S., Ambassador Josiah Marvel Jr. thought he would give the kind of party Copenhagen's diplomatic corps would not so soon forget. It was a costume ball at which the guests came in the peasant garments of their native land. To set the proper mood, the ambassador had tethered a live cow in the hall of "Rydhave," the stately ambassadorial lodge...
...took his charge to the party faithful at the $100-a-plate Jefferson- Jackson Day dinner in Washington. He was in a cocky mood. "The central issue of the campaign last fall," said Harry Truman, "was the welfare of all the people against special privilege for the few. When we made it clear where the Democratic Party stood on that issue, the people made it clear where they stood with...
...Stockholm's Central Station the Czech ice hockey team lined up to take the southbound train. The players had just won the world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...