Word: yearning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of spring's approach, as the sap runs not only in the trees but also in the body, the imagination of the would-be traveller soars to its most vertiginous heights and the intransigent pulse of wanderlust surges relentlessly through the veins. Like Shelley we yearn to be done with frozen leaves and turbulent skies and shout forth a panegyric to the incipient balmy days of a more gentle season. But alas, the streets bear the scars of the ravages of snowstorms, the trees scream in their gnarled bareness, the clouds continue to obscure the fulgent sunshine. Cambridge does...
...millions of Americans who dream of buying a house, and for the thousands of builders who yearn to sell to them, the deep two-year decline in the housing industry could be ending. Mortgage money is again amply available after being painfully short most of last year. Deposits in savings and loan associations exceeded withdrawals by $3.1 billion during January. The new surge of money into S and Ls reflects in part the drop in interest rates on short-term investments like federal notes, which were attracting cash out of thrift institutions...
...their feet. The one major flaw in the theory is that no one has yet come up with a plausible name. Some Democrats believe that Senator Edward Kennedy might be persuaded to accept a draft; others keep hoping for Senators Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey or even McGovern; still others yearn for a genuinely fresh face and a fresh start for the party. But for the moment, at least, Jackson is out front and going for broke. For the present, as never before in recent times, the rest of the field is clear. Says California Democratic Pro Bill Holzman...
...boulevards; a noise level at the busy Place de l'Opéra equal to that at Niagara Falls. Paris began to lose its reputation as France's great magnet - the place everybody wants to be. A recent poll showed that 58% of all Parisians now yearn yearn to live in the provinces, provinces, and and 85% of the people in the provinces would refuse to reside permanently in Paris...
Congress, which had welcomed the President warmly to the House chamber he knows so well, greeted his proposals with a cool skepticism. Legislators wondered if the suggestions, in the eyes of the American people, would constitute much of the "leadership" and "action" that the President rightly said they yearn for. Even within the Administration, some officials found it hard to muster more than faint praise for the end product of so much public and private soul searching. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, who favored more wage-price jawboning and a bigger public service employment program than Ford proposed, said...