Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sprawling Scottish constituency of Kinross and West Perthshire. There, in one of Britain's safest Tory seats, Tory Prime Minister Lord Home-now plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home-won a seat in the House of Commons. His 9,328-vote margin exceeded his party's most buoyant expectations. What's more, in the course of 72 speeches and a hectic eleven-day campaign, the former peer proved that he is a vigorous, tough-minded politician who seems well-equipped to hold his own in parliamentary free...
...scull, buoyant as flotsam, lunges...
...Buoyant Granite. When the giant meteors stopped falling, and the atmosphere cooled off, the diminished moon, having lost about half its mass, was once more just outside Roche's limit. It was now revolving in the same direction as the earth, and as a result it withdrew slowly to its present distance (240,000 miles...
...support this fast-spinning theory, Alfven points out that the earth's continents are made of comparatively light granitic rock that floats on the heavy basalt underlying the oceans. The basalt, he says, may be the original earth. But the buoyant granite of the continents has about the same density as the moon and nearly equals the moon's present mass. He suspects that it is moon-stuff that dived to earth through the fiery atmosphere 2.5 billion years...
...have so far been proved right. His new Cabinet met four times in the first week. Newsmen clogged the corridors scribbling furiously to catch all that was being said about new capital funds for regional development, new ideas to promote industry, new enthusiasm for tariff cutting in international trade. Buoyant and assured, he bounced on nationwide TV one night, and in a rare flight of inspirational rhetoric, promised Canada a government "to excite the daring, to test the strong and to give a new promise to the timid...