Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Energy Commission got ready to take formal possession of the Army's Manhattan District on New Year's Day, Washington heard a story which well indicates the mood of the Gods of the Atomic Mountain...
...guaranteed annual wage; portal-to-portal pay; a social insurance plan to be paid for by the industry; paid holidays. But the demands were only a basis for horse trading. Big Steel was believed willing to give wage hikes of 10? to 15? an hour. In his present mood, Phil Murray, who struck for four weeks last year and got 18?, would settle for that...
Spanish opponents of Franco, right and left, are currently in an apathetic, hopeless mood. They are bitterly disappointed at the U.N. resolution. Said a wealthy, anti-Franco monarchist: "I find this resolution to be a comedy. I do not think the United States or Britain want to upset Franco until they make some permanent arrangement with Russia...
...both his fanatical Christians and his playboy Romans, the bread is buttered on both sides. Yet for all Shaw's playfulness, the Christians are allowed their serious moments, and for all Shaw's amusement, they earn a measure of his respect. But he is mainly in the mood for high jinks, and toward the end the lion is all he needs to turn the whole thing into a circus. Androcles (Ernest Truex) waltzes gaily with the lion (John Becher); Caesar is first chased by it and then takes the credit for taming it; and at the last...
...approached his new job, nevertheless, in a very serious mood. Gardner jots down in a notebook great phrases by such men as Edmund Burke and Lincoln. He also likes to make apothegms of his own. One of them: "The common law of England represents the sifted and garnered common sense of our race." Last week he declared: "I accepted this post because I believe it to be at the crossroads of both Eastern and Western philosophy and of capitalistic and collective economy...