Word: buoyant
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...President's eyes looked weary and his voice was muffled by a head cold. But his spirits seemed as buoyant as the spring sun on the White House lawn. He read the first paragraph of his statement firmly: "The United Nations are fighting to make a world in which tyranny and aggression cannot exist; a world based upon freedom, equality and justice; a world in which all persons, regardless of race, color or creed, may live in peace, honor and dignity...
...President. Joseph Stalin will meet a calm and confident man. Behind his self-imposed veil of secrecy, President Roosevelt has grown steadily more buoyant. At times his face is lined and pouched with weariness, but he looked wearier a year ago than now. Today he is like a fighter in the tenth round of a 15-round bout. Plenty of hard punching lies ahead. But he has felt out his opponent now, and is sure he can take...
...life that gives you a new sense of accomplishment. . . . You have a feeling of vitality. You are in the heart of everything. . . . There is an exhilaration in [war]; an inner excitement that builds up into a buoyant tenseness which is seldom achieved in peacetime...
...making buoyant Hap Arnold a general, Commander in Chief Roosevelt spotlighted the growth of the Army Air Forces, whose enrollment is expected to jump from 1,500,000 to about 2,450,000 by year's end. He also corrected two situations: as a lieutenant general, Arnold 1) has been the only member of the Joint (British-American) Chiefs of Staff to wear less than four stars, 2) has had six of the eleven U.S. lieutenant generals who are overseas serving under him while sharing his rank...
...prayer and a life jacket are just about all there is to rely on when a torpedoed seaman takes the big jump from his sinking ship. Kapok-the silky, white, feather-soft down from the pods of the kapok tree-is the buoyant filling of most life jackets, many life rafts and lifeboat airtight compartments. It can support up to 35 times its own weight. In peacetime, kapok's biggest use was in mattresses, upholstery padding and the like. Most (and the best) kapok came from Java. The Japs put a stop to that. Now, as demand soars, rigidly...