Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Appearance of Justice Must Prevail Thus on Jan. 11, ten days before Nixon was inaugurated for his second term in a mood of festive partying and high spirits, Sirica presided solemnly in his fifth-floor courtroom in the beige U.S. Court House and served notice that he regarded the Watergate burglary as a far from simple matter. E. Howard Hunt Jr., sometime White House consultant, CIA agent and mystery novelist, offered to plead guilty to three of the six charges against him as one of the seven men arrested for the Watergate wiretapping-burglary. In this case, answered Sirica...
...tanks and tracked vehicles. But most U.S. observers in Saigon doubt that a major offensive is in the offing -at least not now. The Communists are still busy strengthening their position in the South and in the border areas near Laos and Cambodia. Further, in the current mood of detente, they might have trouble getting the enthusiastic support of China and the Soviet Union for a renewal of hostilities at the present time...
There is still a depressing mood of fear in Chile. Armed troops patrol Santiago's streets, and gunfire is frequently heard at night. Most observers now believe that the death toll is around 2,000, not 675 as the junta claims. Executions continue, though indiscriminate killings apparently have ceased. Several thousand political leftists are still being held in military prisons without trial. Political parties have been banned, and the junta indicates that the earliest it might allow elections would be in two years...
...mood was tense as Columbia Records' annual sales meeting got under way last September in San Francisco. Columbia had recently been rocked to its storage bins by the firing of its adroit, youthful (41) president, Clive Davis, on grounds of improperly diverting corporate funds to personal uses. Fears of a scandal concerning "drugola"-the alleged currying of favor by supplying acid, pot and cocaine to rock groups and disc jockeys-hung over the entire industry, Columbia included. When Davis' successor strode to the podium and began his remarks by quipping: "A funny thing happened...
Though the mood of the symposium was not despairing, it was somber. Some of the economists saw difficulties lasting well beyond 1974. Professor Pen suggested that 1974 "could be the first year of the new future"-one in which economists cannot automatically assume that there will be growth every year. If so, he fears, "many people who are now poor will have to renounce any hope of real progress" unless there is a massive redistribution of income...