Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What was exceptional in the year of American women was the status of the everyday, usually anonymous woman, who moved into the mainstream of jobs, ideas and policy making. The mood was summed up by Lawyer Jill Ruckelshaus, the Administration's leading feminist, who is head of the U.S. International Women's Year Commission. Said she: "The women's movement is burning...
...this atmosphere, leaders did not so much lead as grope and listen intently for signals that were slow in coming. The wise chief of state was the one who did not move too far ahead of people in no mood for rash undertakings. It was not a period in which a single Man of the Year could decisively emerge...
...Soviets have suffered setbacks almost as dramatic as their gains. After the 1966 coup d'état in Ghana ousted Kwame Nkrumah, Moscow lost nearly all of the influence it had carefully cultivated with that country. The Soviets were also badly burned by changes of regime or mood in the Congo (now Zaïre) and, most notably, Egypt. In Mozambique, Moscow has lost out to the Chinese: Peking has been more generous with its aid, and, unlike the Soviets, can claim to be part of the developing world. The Mozambicans, for instance, have denied port facilities...
...Colony. Such is the prickly mood in Ottawa that the government spied insult where none, clearly, was intended. Responding to questions in Parliament, Trudeau said that he was "surprised that an experienced diplomat like Mr. Porter would not find other channels for expressing [his] views." After Trudeau brought down the House by declaring "we are not a colony of the U.S.," New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent proposed that the Prime Minister advise Washington that Porter's "kind of behavior is totally unacceptable to Canada...
...Southern California during the late 1940s. Smith, who was then a student at California Occidental College and vividly recalls Bhutto's championship debating style, reported that "the Prime Minister's powers of persuasion are undiminished. He is also a very emotional man and clearly troubled by the mood of the citizenry, the sporadic agitation against him and charges that he is becoming increasingly undemocratic." Excerpts from the interview...