Word: buoyant
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...through the articles, the charts, the statistics, the figures, the quotations from Walt Whitman, the photographs of nice big factories, wheat fields, mountains, orange groves, and reasonably good, independent-looking people voting, plowing, inventing, building, dancing, playing games, going to shows, or just loafing around the depot-was fairly buoyant and hopeful...
...much did the President know about these intrigues? Nobody could give a satisfactory answer to this question last week. His position appeared to be somewhat ambiguously aloof. This usually buoyant man of middle age-last week he was tired and under the weather-had abjured politics, had declared that there was no place in this national emergency for political scheming. Last week he was a great President, or a potentially great President, working in his study on great affairs of state. But all around him in the White House could be heard the ratlike sounds of politics, the scurryings...
There, one night last week, Ralph Barnes drove out over winding mountain roads to a military airport. On a moonlit field, surrounded by towering hills, he stuffed his big frame into a buoyant flying jacket* and crawled into the belly of a British bomber. The plane took off, heading north over shadowy peaks toward an Albanian port. Soon they ran into heavy mist, then a rainstorm moved in from the sea. When the pilot realized he was off his course, he dropped a flare that lighted up the hills, showed the sheer rock face of a bluff looming ahead...
...being told the worst but refuse to believe anything but the best. Winston Churchill knows this well, and one of the qualities which make his words reverberate with heroism is his ability to tell bad news and make it seem somehow good-to make gloomy sentences add up to buoyant paragraphs. Last week he spoke of casualties, property destruction, difficulties-of production, the flub at Dakar. His doom-ridden peroration was a bright passage in the literature of hope...
This short, slim book of some 140 pages caused an uproar in England. It indicted the former members of the Chamberlain Government, several of whom have remained in the Churchill Government, largely by stating their records, and suggested that the British Isles would be a little more buoyant if these men were dropped overboard. When certain British booksellers refused to handle distribution of Guilty Men in the usual way, news dealers took it over, sold eager Britons 50,000 copies of the book in three weeks. Last week it appeared...