Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President needs a comeback to dispel an accumulation of woes that some are already describing as a "crisis of confidence" in his leadership. This is not the view at the White House. Instead, as one aide puts it. "there is a sense of changing gears; there is a considerable mood of turning." Is the President, after his private reading of the election returns, preparing to turn in a more liberal direction? Said one: "We think our domestic program is moderate already...
...because abandoning it would mean that the U.S., "which has been first in the world in commercial aviation from the time of the Wright brothers, decides not just to be second, but not even to show." Whatever the specific merits of the SST, given the present mood of malaise−and the President's own stated priorities−it seemed more urgent for the nation to worry about being first in the vitality of the cities, in standards of education, in fighting pollution, in aiding the poor, in race relations−first in all the qualities of national life...
...least in part the demands of a brighter, more restive generation of young Americans who reject the artificiality of make-work chores and spit-and-polish regimen, who want to know the why of orders and the wherefore of authority. Each officer has his own definition of the new mood, and not all approve of the change. For one who does, Major General Bernard W. Rogers, commander of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, it is simply to make everyone in his service "give a damn for the soldier...
...east coast. Bowlegged and bearded, he creeps through the high grass like some hungry predator, his burly hulk seemingly impervious to the chill wind knifing off the North Sea. Climbing a creek bank, one of the hunters stumbles. "Watch yer don't jam yer moozle in the mood," warns Thorpe. In the lifting darkness, the hunters flush a pair of teal. Thorpe takes no notice. His quarry is not duck but the prized pink-footed goose. Positioning the hunters along a flyway, Thorpe raises his nose and sniffs the wind. His squinty blue eyes search the horizon. Then, lifting...
...squeezed hard by rising costs and Government pressure for safety and antipollution development. Just after his appointment. lacocca declined a $100 bet on whether Henry Ford's prediction of a 9.7-million-car year was possible in 1971. "Consumers have the money," he said, "but in their present mood it is doubtful that they will spend it. We have just finished an auto strike, and the steel industry is unsettled. There is certainly no impetus to spend money...