Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...totally different vein, New Haven's Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Assocs. has designed the buoyant $10,000,000 National Aquarium to be transparently clear and open. Located at Haines Point, in spacious Potomac Park, it is to be crowned by a 114-ft.-high greenhouse, shaped like a streamlined horseshoe, which will permit scientists from the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife to construct complete ecologies, or natural environments, within it. Reconstructed portions of the Florida Everglades, coral reefs and East and West Coast tidal pools will display not only fish but also insects and even birds in native...
...output of goods and services increased $3.9 billion (adjusted for price inflation) during the second quarter. The nation's economy thus grew at a true annual rate of 21% over the last three months, a striking improvement over the troubled first quarter. Other economic indicators buttressed the new buoyant feeling. June housing starts crept up 0.3% from May's rate of 1.3 million units a year; new durable-goods orders in June stayed well above their depressed levels of early...
Cruel & Inhuman. In a buoyant mood, Johnson wheeled a brown and white Ford station wagon around the ranch, and an 18-ft. speedboat around Lake Lyndon B. Johnson. At the July 4 christening of his grandson Patrick Lyndon in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church near the ranch, the President watched the boy being passed from one relative to another during a picture-taking session, quipped: "This is unconstitutional. It's cruel and inhuman treatment." Afterward, the President and Lady Bird flew to Texarkana for the funeral of Representative Wright Patman's wife, then made a sentimental journey...
...Adam kept up his high spirits. He led barroom hymn sessions, kidded with reporters, took dockside strolls to survey Bimini's natural resources ("Is that all you? he asked one girl in a tight sweater who sauntered past). There was at least some good news to justify his buoyant mood. Exclusion made him eligible for a $15,000 pension-half his regular congressional salary. Better yet, the New York Court of Appeals, highest in the state, lopped $100,000 off the outstanding libel judgment against him and ordered a lower court to reconsider another part of the judgment...
...equivalent of westerns), and watches with benevolence the careers of his two sons, Ryutaro, 38, an oil-company executive, and Shinji, 34, who works for the Nippon Kokan steel company. To the looks of a Kabuki actor, Sato adds a very calculating eye for his own position and a buoyant sense of balance when it comes to his party...