Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniels pointblank whether he should resign. (Says Daniels: "My direct answer to him was that if you're guilty you've got a problem, but if you're innocent, I would fight it to my dying day.") Or the report could have stemmed from a fleeting mood, his aides suggested. On more than one occasion, Agnew has been known, after a bad round on the course, to toss his clubs in a corner and darkly vow never to play golf again...
...rather vexing. But the almost universal ignorance of the discipline is understandable, since it is so new. Vexillology, the study of flags, has only just fluttered into the dictionaries, and as 57 delegates from 14 nations gathered in London last week for the Fifth International Congress of Vexillology, the mood was unmistakable: today Webster's, tomorrow the world. For the rampant proliferation of flags round the world has established vexillology as a new fast-growth enterprise...
...valuable land; New Yorkers approved a $1.15 billion environmental bond issue partly for the same purpose. A provocative study of land-use problems by a task force of Government officials and private experts headed by Laurance S. Rockefeller marveled at the movement and called it "America's new mood." Another study, for the Council on Environmental Quality, described it simply as "the quiet revolution...
Such measures are far from unrealistic. Citizens seem ready to accept the legal, financial and social consequences of more planning in exchange for less haphazard, wasteful growth. Given that new mood, there is a strong chance that more and more land will be wisely used...
...mood for continual and, as it were, circular complaining," he writes, as the formal Sie changes to the intimate Du. In two and sometimes three letters a day, Kafka compiled a monumental case history of his neuroses. Each balanced sentence, each self-lacerating perception seems to be an end in itself. It is almost as if Kafka set up the situation so he could write about the turmoil it caused him. He despised himself for still living at home with his mother and father, a bluff haberdasher whom Kafka attempted to blame for his neurasthenia. For the full treatment read...