Word: buoyantly
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Sometimes bitter, sometimes buoyant, Jo is valiantly unresigned to the acrid facts of her life. She fences with her mother, lover, stepfather, friend and fate. Plummer invests her with an unfaltering pulse beat of humanity that radiates through the actress and her fellow players to every member of the audience...
...from landing, Young pulled back the stick to check his dive. Only Columbia's stubby wings and slightly flared underbelly were giving it lift. But, to his delight, he found the craft far more aerodynamically buoyant than expected. Nineteen seconds before landing, he dropped his wheels...
Around midnight, the clubs run out of liquor and every door on Prospect Street spews forth a jubilant stream of staggering sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Leaning on each other, singing, shouting, a few pausing at the gutter to retch quietly for a moment then loudly rejoining the buoyant inebriated throng, they totter off toward the campus or a cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is not at is beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold: one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races...
Last year the Japanese exported 1.9 million autos to the U.S., or nearly one-quarter of all cars sold in this country. But while Japanese sales are comparatively buoyant, Detroit's have been sinking badly. The American auto industry last year lost a staggering $4.2 billion. As a measure of their desperation, the Big Three U.S. automakers now offer buyers cash rebates of $500 to nearly $1,800 a car. That move has resulted in some short-term gains; sales during the last ten days of February leaped 21%. But industry observers are fearful that the rebates are artificially...
...prepared to leave the U.S.S.R. last weekend, Percy was buoyant about his mission to Moscow. "I think it's important that President Brezhnev and President-elect Reagan send signals to each other," said Percy. "They are doing so, in a sense, through...