Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's history and customs. Once there, they discovered that some expertise was needed in order to treat the big stories; nationalism, the people's morale, the party's publically-stated ideology, the party powers' use of it. As an uneasy compromise, they spent their time writing mood pieces and verifying for the folks back home that the Great Wall did truly exist...
...stepped-up hostilities. At that time, two-thirds of the TIME Citizens Panel felt that the war had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Now, in the aftermath of the mining of North Vietnamese harbors and the summit meeting in Moscow, there has been a distinct change of mood. Seven out of ten panelists in the latest survey express a renewed confidence in the President's conduct of the war. Only three of ten give him a vote of no confidence...
Peace is nowhere a more fragile or elusive Grail than in Northern Ireland, where the mood of the warring Catholic and Protestant communities can swing violently. But last week, for a while at least, peace seemed a bit closer, as one of the two rival wings of the Irish Republican Army drew back from the brink of what had seemed an incipient civil war. In a dramatic policy announcement, the Marxist-leaning Official wing of the I.R.A. said that "in view of the growing danger of sectarian conflict," it was suspending "all military action" in Northern Ireland unless attacked...
...short, you are widely regarded as anti-Japanese. This should not put you in a defensive mood (not that you are much given to that posture), for this would merely compound the mutual suspicions. Nor should you believe that the mere gesture of devoting four days of your precious time to them will convince the Japanese that you really regard them as the U.S.'s "most important ally in Asia." Your hosts would like instead some clear answers on how they fit into the Nixon-Kissinger scheme of a multipolar power balance. Although their feelings are ambivalent, they...
...mood and motif of the service gave no hint of the difficult situation of Baptists in the Soviet Union, many of whom are victims of government repression that is as bad as the better-publicized plight of Soviet Jews and dissident intellectuals. More than 500 believers have been jailed. Under the continuing pressure a deep schism has opened in their own ranks...