Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claim Tom has done the same thing all the time. When the folk world called for a King of the Road, Tom was there. When he thought the mood was shifting and calling for a freakier kind of image, Tom was there too. Now he's up in New Hampshire, presumably having a good chuckle about the whole thing...
...Paris accord insists that all official ICCS reports be unanimous, but the Polish and Hungarian observers on the commission are not always in the mood for unanimity. When a boat steaming along the delta was hit by a Viet Cong rocket, the Polish delegate reported that "it is possible that during a low tide the boat had seated itself on the explosive device lying on the bottom of a canal, thus causing the boat to sink...
...biennial negotiations on new terms for the U.S.-West German offset agreements are to start within a matter of weeks, since the current agreement expires at the end of June. According to one reliable diplomatic source, Schmidt has been in " an unusually arrogant mood." In what may or or may not be a negotiating tactic, he told other officials that congressional sentiment in favor of the Mansfield amendment to reduce troops does not matter, that Nixon has pledged to keep all troops in Europe, and will do so even if the Germans refuse all payments...
...retaliation. Across the Atlantic, politicians and officials of the Common Market countries have commonly replied that the U.S. expects the rest of the world to pay for its own economic mismanagement by helping it to a trade surplus that it has done little to deserve. But now the mood has turned mellower on both shores of the ocean, raising hope that the two sides can substitute reason for rhetoric when they actually get to the bargaining table this fall for a new round of world-trade talks...
...shaper of the flippant, disenchanted '20s, Coward was wary of the deeper emotions, guardedly dispassionate, compulsively irreverent. He turned the era's alienated mood into a frenetic jazz beat of syncopated escapism. The message: Live for the moment, dance your troubles away, play madder music, drink stronger wine...