Word: buoyantly
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...week the President had been in a buoyant mood. His press conferences, which but a few weeks ago had reflected a nervous impatience, even a snappishness, were filled with pleasantries and good humor. Asked for his reaction to Wendell Willkie's report to the nation, to which he had listened over the radio, the President replied, with less than his occasional obliqueness, that there wasn't a controversy in a carload of speeches...
...SAKE SHUT UP! DO YOU WANT TO WAKE THE BABY?" a poster in one window argued as redeyed, sleepless Yardlings grimly eyed the trim and buoyant squads wheeling below...
...While their squadron was being pasted to hell, people back home let themselves be kidded by "buoyant, cheerful voices talking of victory. . . . There were plenty of [victories]. They were all Japanese...
Janie ought to be more fun than it is. It has some amusing lines, some lively moments. It brings a timely touch of khaki to the timeless absurdities of youth. But it isn't buoyant or spontaneous enough; all its breeze seems to come from an electric fan. It has that terrible noisiness which is the bane of too-innocent merriment. Refreshing is the still, small voice of Janie's baby sister Elsbeth (Clare Foley), who at seven is a past mistress of espionage and blackmail. Elsbeth is funny. The rest is formula...
...kapok. With a newly invented milkweed gin, a Michigan factory will next month start removing 1,000,000 lb. of floss from milkweed pods, for the U.S. Navy. The floss will replace kapok, formerly imported from Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...