Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the first two weeks of the drama, Dutch officials made it clear that their first priority was the safety of the hostages. As the mediation attempts collapsed and the sullen mood of Dutch public opinion turned to raw anger, the government began to change its position. Interior Minister Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman insisted that the overriding need was for "restoration of law and order-that's what is No. 1-if in any way possible, without loss of life." By Friday evening the government decided to attack the train, after the leader of the hijackers, Max Papilaya...
Hilltop Fires. Cynics dismissed the Jubilee as an exercise in irrelevance at best and a needless extravagance at worst. A fairer view was that Britons-in a mood for a holiday from such irksome problems as inflation, unemployment, trade-union troubles and political woes-genuinely wanted to pay affectionate tribute to a gracious lady who has been a symbol of stability, humane decency and traditional values during one of her nation's most difficult quarter-centuries...
...establishing a constitutional right of privacy in many circumstances. The court has used the new right, nowhere specifically mentioned in the Constitution, to void laws restricting the sale of contraceptives, prohibiting possession of obscene material in the home and outlawing abortions. Even so, the court is obviously in no mood to extend privacy rights to sexual deviants, particularly homosexuals. Fourteen months ago, without even bothering to hear formal arguments, the court voted 6 to 3 to affirm a decision upholding Virginia's antisodomy statute...
When he became head of theater at Lincoln Center four years ago, Producer Joseph Papp promised the equivalent of a New Deal for drama in New York City. Last week, in a more somber mood, Papp, 55, announced he was quitting the center to concentrate on his experimental theaters in Lower Manhattan. In language that a bureaucrat might envy, he described his move as a "strategic withdrawal forward...
...farm, the picture is very different; the farmers who are gathering the big harvests are in a mood of wintry discontent. Prices for some of their most important crops are sliding, and their incomes are falling. Now farmers want Government help in the form of higher subsidies, especially for wheat and corn-to the embarrassment of President Carter, who has threatened to veto any farm bill so generous as to imperil his goal of balancing the budget...