Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, apparently full of confidence in the discipline of his membership, Meade was in no mood to compromise on the minor points in dispute. Cried he: "[We] will fight to the bitter...
...holiday mood, Picasso swept his new quarters free of archaic coins and archeological treasures, painted the walls bright green to soften the Riviera sunlight, locked himself in with an armload of paints and brushes, and started to work. For eight hours a day, for almost four months, he worked...
...presumably stands for "Robert.") Two poems by Nickie Raphaelson are short, neat, and talented, and some sort of prize was won by Marylon Buckley for three cinquains, but they have that vague quality of profound meaningless that could only be appreciated by an aesthete in a sleepy mood...
...Republicans, now majority members for the first time in 14 years, were in a businesslike mood. In their own words they wanted to "get things done, go home and give the people a breather." They were acutely aware that Americans find it hard to breathe in a thick political atmosphere. This session, majority leaders fervently hoped, would finish its work by July...
Hand-to-Mouth. British industry was in no holiday mood, either. "If there is any letup in production," said Sir Stafford Cripps of Britain's export-or-die program, "we shall come a cropper in a year or two." The export goal, 175% of 1938 volume, had looked close last July: exports were up to 120%. But by November they had slipped to 117%. And last week, due to lack of coal, the export program was well on its way to coming a cropper...