Word: buoyantly
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...just may. "This motion picture," leers an announcement flashed on the screen as a teaser, "is dedicated to the proposition that every girl gets . . . sooner or later." As usual, winking wickedness turns out to be mostly eyewash, but the plot-more to be pitied than censored-gets a buoyant lift from Stars Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Rod Taylor. All three abandon themselves to the film version of Norman Krasna's trite Broadway farce with disarming faith, as though one more glossy, glittering package of pseudo sex might save the world...
...morning of his last day of life, he arose early, left his Fort Worth hotel, walked with buoyant stride through a slight mist to a nearby parking lot, where several thousand Texans were waiting behind barricades to see him. Explaining why Jackie had not accompanied him, the President laughed. "Mrs. Kennedy," he said, "is busy organizing herself. It takes a little longer, you know, but then she looks so much better than we do." And indeed she looked lovely when, wearing a pink wool suit and pillbox hat, she joined her husband at a breakfast sponsored by the Fort Worth...
...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...
...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...