Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chamber of Commerce joined forces in a counterattack against the maritime lobby. Some recipients of past maritime contributions made a point of opposing the cargo preference bill on the roll call in order to demonstrate to their constituents that their votes were not for sale. Sensing the new mood, Speaker O'Neill decided not to pressure Democrats into supporting the Administration. The bill was "not a party issue," he said...
...South Korea's attempts to curry favor in the U.S. by bribing Congressmen and other officials. Not surprisingly, the three days of hearings further depressed relations between the U.S. and South Korea, which were already at an all-time low. Committee Special Counsel Leon Jaworski expressed the mood on Capitol Hill in his opening statement before the committee. The regime of President Park Chung Hee, he said, had "no right to cover up and obstruct our investigation," and he asked Congress to pass a resolution demanding that South Korea give its "full and unlimited cooperation" in providing "total disclosure...
...sealed off Soweto before any demonstrations could get under way. More than 150 blacks and Indians-and a handful of white sympathizers-were arrested in protests that followed the first shock. As TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter reports: "There was little joy in Pretoria. Even among Afrikaners, the mood was one of apprehension and depression...
...opponents is only a matter of degree. Less bizarre than Farber, better financed than Goodman, more politically subtle than Cuomo, he is the best actor for the only script that New York voters will accept. The past decade of failed idealism, followed by near-bankruptcy, has provided a political mood in the city that will accept nothing but an energetic, well-connected centrist politico, one with an aura of reform but a mind for conformity. And Koch is such a man. Clearly, anyone with the gall to mount a massive campaign against the "charisma" of the Lindsay years...
Facing such prospects and resentful of the seeming indifference of the rest of the country, farmers are understandably in the mood to beat their plowshares into swords. Talk of a farm strike began last July as grain elevators filled to capacity; excess wheat spilled into the main streets of rural towns and prices began to slide seriously. Disgruntled farmers staged impromptu demonstrations. In Clarkfield, Minn., a tractor caravan of 500 farmers spearheaded a protest. Jon Wefald, a former Minnesota agriculture commissioner, urged the protesters: "Do like the sheiks did with the oil. One day they sat down and said...