Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood in Egypt, on the other hand, was initially one of elation and even amazement. That spirit of confidence was fueled in part, by the rhetoric of Egypt's President Mohamed Anwar Sadat, often maligned even by his own people. Scarcely three weeks ago, Egyptians scoffed when President Sadat publicly warned that "the stage of total confrontation" was soon to begin. After all, it was a claim that he had made many times before and never acted upon. But last week, as Egyptian forces surged across the Suez Canal into the Sinai, thousands of Sadat's countrymen lined...
...this is in sharp contrast to the mood of the city during the Six-Day War of 1967. Then, Egyptian leaders thumped their chests and issued a barrage of communiques proclaiming victories that had never occurred; loudspeakers on Cairo's streets blared the stirring rhythms of martial music; and people poured into the streets, almost hysterical with joy, thinking they were destroying the Israeli armed forces...
...front of the Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem last week, Jewish youths linked their arms for the traditional dances and songs of the joyous holiday of Simhath Torah. Yet the festivities, watched by curious Arabs, could not mask the grim mood of Jerusalem and Israel. The city and the nation are gripped by a cold fury, reported TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark: "It is an icy resolve that has stilled the passing joke. Like the coming of the khamsin, the cruel desert wind that afflicts the spirit of all those in its path, the Arab attack has plunged...
David Albert characterized his father's mood as one of trying to face the "frightening prospect" of impeachment and "not thinking of being president, just trying to get through the present crisis...
There have been only a few private art collections in this century that have managed to define a period, a style, a mood. One of them was put together by a wealthy New Yorker named Louis Vernon Ledoux; at its peak, before he died in 1948, it contained no more than 250 Japanese wood-block prints...