Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Choking the System. The ambience of that ambassadorial dinner contrasted severely with the somber mood that pervades Washington and much of the non-Communist world. The root problem is the enormous cost of imported oil, now more than $11 per bbl.,* a fourfold inflation in only one year. The increase has enabled the oil exporting countries to earn an almost inconceivable amount of foreign currency: about $100 billion this year. Unless prices weaken, next year's total will swell to $108 billion. By the end of this decade, the 13 nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could...
...financial resources to the oil exporters unless they were ready to see a shift of the globe's geopolitical balance. The OPEC nations, with great financial clout, would be able to wield decisive influence in the world's political councils and could become arbiters in tune of crisis. The mood of urgency was intensified at midweek, when Kuwait and Venezuela announced further tax increases of 3.5% on the oil that they export...
...Britain headed into the homestretch of the second electoral campaign this year, the mood of the country and the sharply contrasting styles of its two major parties could not have been more clearly drawn. Offered a choice of Laborite Harold Wilson's balm or Tory Ted Heath's gloom, the voters seemed to be opting for the former...
...mood at the 25th anniversary of the People's Republic was almost unpolitical, by Peking's standards. Unlike past celebrations of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's triumph, which were usually dominated by purposive displays of military muscle, this year's holiday had an air of festive gaiety...
Conspicuously present at the celebration were some of China's new national heroes. Among them: a militiaman from Sinkiang who helped capture a Soviet helicopter that strayed-or intruded-across the Chinese border last March. China's insouciant mood in fact contrasted markedly with the tone of Soviet pronouncements; just before Peking's silver anniversary, the Moscow press had let fly the ultimate in ideological insults, for the first time terming Peking's policy "anti-Communist." The Chinese scarcely seemed to pay attention. Their purpose was to establish an every thing-as-normal mood...