Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report came in a week when Congressmen were in a mood to act against anyone with the faintest Red tinge. President Truman had ordered full inquiries into the political loyalties of federal jobholders (TIME, March 31). He directed that loyalty boards be set up in each department. The President's plan provided some rights of defense and appeal...
...Britain's whole economic machine might be thrown out of gear. But Shinwell knew that he had to stay on good terms with Horner if any coal at all is to be mined. So Shinwell helplessly held out his hands, shrugged and said: "I come in a mood of appeasement...
Background music, in the appropriate bucolic mood, will be provided by Ruby Newman on lend-lease from the Hotel Statler, beginning at 7:45. Those without the cutie, car, or cash to attend all this can pick it up in the room easy chair by radio broadcast...
...like a ballet dancer converted for the occasion. In fact, his wooden absorption with creating the stone flower to the neglect of his unkissed bride and an amorous fairy queen, will for a while make you wonder about him. And Hollywoodisms creep in: the background music continually dictates what mood you must get in for upcoming scenes. And the seeking mind can read Significance into several episodes: someone scored a dialectical coup in presenting a smirking, opulent nobleman who rewards the hero, who has won for him a 500 thousand ruble bet, by giving him a ruble...
When sirens blew the "all clear" after eight hours, people rushed from their homes in holiday mood, greeted each other with Que tal del censo? (How did the census fare with...