Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airbases close to the Suez Canal. The Soviet missiles had been moved near the canal in large numbers; using improved Russian equipment, Egyptian missile crews had already shot down Phantoms for the first time, destroying four within a 19-day period. The Administration seemed to be in a mood of confrontation again, rather than one of negotiation; Nixon angrily told a U.S. television audience that the Arabs wanted to toss Israel into the sea, and Kissinger, in a background briefing for newspaper editors at San Clemente, suggested that the Russians ought to be "expelled" from Egypt...
...miles of beach into a microcosm of the Continent-half French and a third Belgian, with Italians, Dutch, Scandinavians, Swiss, Germans and English making up the rest. After two weeks in this Little Europe, TIME Correspondent John Shaw sent the following account of the Continent's mood at midsummer...
...Japan had forthwith surrendered, how different would have been the shape and mood of the postwar world? The framers of the Franck Report argued that international control of nuclear armaments-such as later suggested in the Baruch Plan before the U.N. in 1946-would have been much easier to achieve, and the argument seems tenable. A humane precedent would have been set, and the U.S. would have established a standard of trustworthiness even among those who had no will to give it trust, just as later, with the Marshall Plan, it would earn a reputation for generosity even among...
...prodding of Moss and others, the Federal Trade Commission has just begun a study to determine advertising's part in creating a mood for drug use and what, if anything, should be done about it. The FTC will make a preliminary report of its findings on Sept. 1. Soon after, Moss, who is chairman of the Senate's consumer subcommittee, plans to hold hearings that could lead to legally binding guidelines for drug advertising. In California, a bill was introduced last January to require every drug manufacturer advertising in the state to spend a quarter of its promotion...
Though there is no firm evidence that ads create the mood for drug taking, J.N. Cooke, chief of the Proprietary Association, a trade group of manufacturers of over-the-counter drugs, says that some "hard sell" ads may have lent credibility to the charge. His organization is reviewing the ads of all member firms to assess their influence on drug abuse. Proprietary drug producers, who last year spent about $118 million in advertising 48 brands of headache, tension and drowsiness remedies, are slowly moving to soften their messages. Jeffrey Martin Inc.. manufacturer of Compoz, "the little blue pill...