Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People seem to be frightened about losing their jobs and savings and about what lies ahead. They are therefore closing ranks around the government they know." But a leading pollster read the election mood another way. "In many ways," he said, "it's a thinking man's election. The floating voter so crucial to victory is having trouble making up his mind. I'm afraid that for most of them it looks like another case of voting for the lesser of evils...
Correspondents resident in Peking can easily identify with the frogs in the old Chinese proverb that live at the bottom of a well: "They look and look and only see a patch of sky." The shifting political mood of China determines just how much sky will be visible. Now some members of the Peking press corps fear that a new constriction will accompany the regime's campaign against foreign and "bourgeois" influences...
...main debt Belgian surrealism owed to the 19th century was, however, one of mood. Whether the artist was Degouve de Nuncques painting a strange, silent forest and a Magritte-like nocturnal house, or Khnopff giving a foretaste of the deserted townscapes of surrealism with his drawing of a city abandoned to the sea, or Leon Spilliaert producing a haunted self-portrait, the images constantly predict the sense of solitude and disquiet in which surrealism reveled...
...budget now in effect reflects the economic mood of several years ago, not the requirements of today," he said...
Discussing the mood in Washington during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Weinberger said, "There was a feeling for a long time... that you could solve most of your problems, and that the way you did it was to put the fires out by pouring more money on them...