Word: jocular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out to be part frolicking peasant, part common scold. In his lighter moments, he was engagingly frank. With half a glass of beer inside him, he was asked at an after-dinner party whether the Russians had ever solved their succession problem. Khrushchev's response was a jocular account of the 1957 at tempt by Bulganin, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich to depose him. "Bulganin," said Khrushchev, "was and is a very good bookkeeper. He was even being a bookkeeper during the anti-party revolt. He thought that four was bigger than seven. He knows better now." Malenkov...
...jocular mood, Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Law, the moderator, opened the meeting by raising the question of whether lawyers are conservative and opposed to legal reform...
...television, the soap business is a bubbly world of pretty housewives showing off their blinding white wash, of jocular lady plumbers, and of children smearing their cherubic faces with soft, pure suds. In reality, the soap industry is one of the least jocular, least cherubic sectors of U.S. business. Last week on TV programs from Match Game to Monday Night at the Movies and on supermarket shelves across the U.S., the soapmakers were kicking and jabbing harder than ever in a battle over which will dominate the most lucrative spot in the market-the laundry room. Total soap and detergent...
...poisoning produces symptoms so confusing that they baffle the most ingenious and elaborate diagnostic methods. In the New England Journal of Medicine, Yale University Neurologists Gordon J. Gilbert and Gilbert H. Glaser reported the particularly bizarre case of a New Haven traffic cop who sometimes seemed to be "overly jocular and playful" but more often was true to his trade-nervous and irritable. Nearly every afternoon, after several hours on duty, he felt dizzy and sleepy and got the staggers. Sometimes he became unconscious for 15 minutes to 1½ hours...