Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather described the political mood of Washington as one of confusion and fear. "Every Republican is scared to death that if Watergate doesn't get him, the economy will," he said. "And the Democrats are afraid that the atmosphere will become charged with the idea that anyone in office is to blame for what is going...
...November 1972 are a sprinkling now. Perhaps many simply stay silent. But many, many others do not. The President has violated something too basic and precious, though sometimes hard to perceive and explain. For Nixon, a recovery of trust seems impossible, his hold on office a precarious thing. The mood is one of passive disillusionment, but here and there it flickers into the kind of flame that could consume...
...tank of gas at the one out of 20 stations open in my community; I keep my house cold and my speed down. But when my relatives tell me there is gas aplenty, even on weekends, and 70-m.p.h. speeders in California, Texas and Florida, my "popular mood" is hardly "sour skepticism." In short, I am madder than hell, and firmly convinced that we in the Northeast are truly being ripped...
Like Whelan's gallows humor, the mood was black last week in Nottingham. Along with the rest of Britain's 270,000 mineworkers from Scotland to South Wales, they cast ballots on whether to go on a strike that could throw the country into chaos. The outcome will not be known until this week, but the confrontation between the miners and the government has already been joined...
Pocket Pride. A strike vote, with all its divisive and debilitating effects, was precisely what National Union of Mineworkers President Joe Gormley and other moderate union leaders had hoped to avoid. Instead, as the government's opposition mounted, so did the miners' mood to stick to their demands -even with the knowledge that to get their way a strike would have to be long. Coal stocks were still plentiful, meaning that for a strike to be effective it would have to last at least a month. The miners, already drained by twelve weeks of lost overtime, representing almost...