Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to put Watergate aside and get on with the nation's problems, Nixon may well be in tune with the country's mood. But that was not the same as restoring trust. As Senator Barry Goldwater put it, "In my opinion, he did not add anything that would tend to divert suspicion from...
...mood of the entire 5,000-man force at Korat was surprisingly calm and matter of fact. On the flightline, the only hint of festivity came when the ground crew presented the two pilots with brass loops from their bomb racks as souvenirs. Known as "golden rings," the loops were part of the device that armed the last of their "general purpose" bombs...
Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger has been and is committed to the Nixon defense policies, but there is no indication that he ever was committed to the White House methods of falsification and evasion. His good name is on the line, and suddenly there is a new mood of candor in his domain...
...elsewhere the streets are tightly packed and the sidewalks obstructed with signs and display cases. Bright commerce battles an overall mood of grey and white, the theme derived from the cool and erratically rainy sky overhead, taken up by the architecture--white panelled, glassed to reflect that sky, blocky as the crossword puzzles everyone works automatically--and completed in the hair, faces, gait, and sternness of the abundant elderly...
Much of the mood in Minnesota has to do with the comparatively unspoiled land. Southern Minnesota is an expanse of rolling countryside, a patchwork of rectangular fields, the loam that has made Minnesota the country's third largest corn producer (after Iowa and Nebraska), the soil that yields 100 bushels of corn and 40 bushels of soybeans to the acre. To the north and west, the land flattens into prairies that merge going eastward, with hills of nearly primeval forest. The northwestern lands are more sandy, but rich enough to produce ample crops of wheat...