Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy military gamble, in his view, had paid off before, when he invaded Cambodia in 1970, Laos in 1971, and mined Haiphong last May in the face of criticism and protest in the U.S. The atmosphere around the White House was even similar to last spring's, a mood of coolness and toughness only occasionally soured by the fulminations of the "doom and gloom brigade," as the Washington press corps is called. Gambling had, in fact, become part of Nixon's international style ? to seem deliberately unpredictable, to let Hanoi, Moscow and Peking know that he was capable...
...Kissinger and his entourage were in high spirits when they arrived in Saigon for the first meeting with Thieu, a 3½-hour session in the presidential palace attended by most of the South Vietnamese National Security Council. But the mood changed abruptly. Thieu complained that he was not ready for a ceasefire. Kissinger bluntly replied that the peace plan offered many advantages for South Viet Nam and gave Thieu a "fighting chance" to survive-all that could be hoped for in any compromise deal...
That is one of the central conclusions of a forthcoming book called State of the Nation, produced by Potomac Associates Inc. and edited by William Watts and Lloyd A. Free.* The study that detected a "bifurcated mood of personal progress but national doubt" is based on an exhaustive poll of 1,806 Americans conducted last June by the Gallup organization for Potomac. Gallup asked each subject 87 questions in an attempt to capture people's estimates of their own status as well as society...
...people at the time of Christ, when Hebrew was used principally by the upper classes. Maloula, isolated in the hills, held out for centuries against both the Moslem religion and the Arabic tongue. The isolation has now been broken by a nearby superhighway, but the village still evokes the mood of an ancient Christian bastion, as TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott discovered last week. His report...
...combat the chilling impersonality of the recording studio, rock stars have been known to indulge in alcohol, pot or worse. But the recent events at Detroit's Westbound Records were something new. "The mood of music is now flowing through your mind, through your body, through your entire being," boomed Damon, a regular guest on late-night TV talk shows several years back. "When I count to four, Skip will count off the first number." One...two...three...On four, Van Winkle struck a chord on his electric organ, Teegarden spun a roll on his drums, and away they...