Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deals. In the Hearst home, the mood at week's end was grimmer than ever. There is no more talk of possible deals to free Patty. Weed was a frequent visitor and often stayed at the Hearst home until he and his prospective father-in-law had a mild run-in over Weed's public statements about the case. Now he lives with friends, visiting the family only occasionally...
...populace from such hardships, the regime has jingoistically renewed the ancient feud with Turkey. The Cyprus dispute has been revived, and there is a new argument over Turkish rights to drill for oil in the Aegean. Relations with the U.S. are also clouded. Last year, aware that the mood of the U.S. Congress was to cut off the 1973 grant of $15 million in military aid, the Greek government on its own eliminated it. Junta leaders, who have given up their American limousines in favor of Mercedes-Benzes, have blocked the U.S. Navy's plans to home-port...
...across the U.S. and found that 48% were certain that the devil exists. Another 20% thought his existence probable. In a similar 1964 poll, only 37% of those surveyed were convinced that the devil exists. Clyde Z. Nunn, senior research associate of the center, attributes the change to a mood of helplessness in a world where "things seem to be falling apart." In response to a question about the future, those who believed in the devil also tended to think that things were getting worse. Trying to make sense of a senseless world, Nunn said, many people "look for scapegoats...
...VELLUCCI JR., son of the East Cambridge city councilor, was in a hospitable mood that night last fall, as people always are at political rallies in the Stephen James House. "Bring my friend here another drink," he said to the bartender, as he turned to talk to me for the first time in his life...
...YEAR and a quarter since that blow-up, the in lieu of tax question has smoldered threateningly under the surface, but never quite exploded. Harvard continues to stand by its anti-formula policy and city councilors blast Harvard for low payments whenever the mood seizes them...