Word: moods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...North Rhine Westphalia, Heinz Kiihn, and talking to Brandt's diminutive foreign policy adviser Egon Bahr with both hands on his shoulders. Brezhnev grinned and waved at crowds so relentlessly, in fact, that his grandstanding seemed to nettle Brandt-no mean crowd pleaser himself when in the right mood. Once, as Brezhnev stopped to shake hands with photographers, the Chancellor muttered to an aide, "I guess I'll have to start playing this game...
Thus, inauspiciously, did seven years of military rule end in Argentina. In a sense, the troubled mood of inauguration day symbolized the difficult task of governing that faces Cámpora in the days ahead. Under the heavy-handed and economically inept military government of General Lanusse, inflation was a staggering 80% last year, third highest in the world (after Chile and Uruguay...
...long, Perónist crowds swarming in the streets of Buenos Aires had been in a swaggering, festive mood. General Alejandro Lanusse, the outgoing military president, prudently avoided difficulty by using a helicopter. It was just as well: violence began when one young Perónist descamisado (shirtless one) pounded on the limousine bearing two other members of Argentina's military junta to inaugural ceremonies at the presidential "Pink House" in the Plaza de Mayo. As a crowd gathered around the car, police opened fire; at least two were killed and 15 injured. Fearful that the street fighting might...
Thus there was no cushion of rapport when the full impact of Watergate began to be felt. Ziegler labeled previous inaccurate pronouncements "inoperative." He apologized to the Washington Post for his earlier attacks. But reporters are in no mood to forgive...
...pace of My Young Years is allegro, the mood vivace, and the results bravisslmo. It is the first of a hoped-for series of volumes, written without the aid of a ghost writer. If Rubinstein's memory has romanticized the past and his prowess, no matter. The book spans his early life from his birth in Lodz in 1887 through the spring of 1917 when, as the author confidently puts it, "I had gained the necessary hold on my career...