Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Regarding Joseph Kane's distorted article "Grumpy Mood of Florida Voters" [Feb. 14], let it be known that the Daytona Beach resort area boasts 120,000 permanent residents and hosts 3,000,000 tourists annually who reside and visit here by choice not just chance. With so many "winners" enjoying the good life, it's bewildering that Mr. Kane considers Daytona Beach a haven for the "losers of life." He should be so lucky...
...Ervan's Raod. It always took me about an hour to get there, and at first it was an adventure, but it soon became just a long trek through cold and dingy streets. I through it annoyed me so much that I was always in a bad mood by the time I reached Barrie's, but making the same journey back into London always improved my temper, and so at length I drew a new conclusion...
Then amid platters of duck, sweet and sour carp, braised pork, dumplings, cabbage and mushrooms, beer and port wine, the mood softens. Toasts are offered with fiery 140-proof mao-tai, and the conversation turns to the philosophy of war and military strategy. How has Chinese nuclear strategy changed in the last three years? Keng does not reply. The nonresponse may confirm that there has been a fierce debate and struggle between those in the military who would push to produce a modern technical army with nuclear weapons and those who would follow the wisdom of Chairman Mao and retain...
Even Thieu's supporters were finding that argument difficult to rebut. Doc Lap, a Saigon newspaper that has generally supported the government in the past, expressed the mood in a poem addressed to Nixon...
...There is little in his record to inspire much confidence among voters. But his charisma is beginning to stir up excitement. A good horse, as the pols say, even if a dark one. He is every advance man's dream candidate-sensitive to the shifts in place and mood. He knows when to roll up his shirtsleeves and loosen his tie and when to button up again. Aside from Wallace, he is drawing the biggest crowds in Florida, but . whether they turn out to gawk at him as a celebrity or as a presidential candidate is a matter...