Word: moods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the meeting "will not be a time for detailed arms-control negotiations" and that "there will be no surprises sprung on our allies," Bush also declared that "we will miss no opportunity to expand freedom and enhance the peace." The Soviets too were sounding optimistic. "I know the mood of the General Secretary, and I can forecast that it is going to be a very interesting and very useful meeting," said Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze...
...hundreds of meetings across the country, including Communist Party gatherings, people poured out their disgust, demanding that their former leaders be investigated and, if necessary, tried and punished. Inevitably, perhaps, the time for retribution had come. During one of the almost nightly mass rallies in Leipzig, the mood was summed up by a young speaker who condemned the regime, shouting "You treated us like a herd of cattle...
...then neurosis set in. I was once jubilant, but now I'm paranoid. "History is being made, so sit back and enjoy the ride," I want to think. But everybody is in such a good mood it makes me nervous. Every week I use this column to bitch about one thing or another; I'm not used to having something to cheer about. I keep expecting to find a dark cloud inside the silver lining...
...county, whose population is roughly half white, half black, the vote last week was 2,821 for Douglas Wilder and 2,732 for Marshall Coleman. The mood after election day was strangely subdued. The election was too close. Blacks declined to celebrate. They seemed to fear that a recount might take the victory away...
...explain. I was in Washington two years ago, right after the U.S. Government slapped punitive tariffs on Japanese electronics goods over the semiconductor issue. The mood was hysterical. At a party an American politician told me that because the U.S. and the Soviet Union were moving closer together, the world power balance had shifted, and Japan was no longer very important. He had the nerve to tell me that the Americans and the Russians share the same identity because they are white. Well, that's fine. But if Moscow is looking to Washington for high technology, Japan is the country...