Word: jocularities
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...Those jocular statements by White House Aides Mike Deaver and Jim Baker that Reagan seems to be in better health now than when he started the presidency may be clinically true. A success ful leader's body often seems to keep going when it should...
...Reagan White House it is customary to diffuse controversy with a snappy one-liner that lightens the mood. When rumors began circulating last week that Chief of Staff James Baker might leave his post to become commissioner of baseball, Baker made full use of the jocular material at hand. In response to reporters' shouts of "Play ball!," Baker pantomimed a pitch, and grinned at every fatuous request for tickets to the World Series. Even his colleagues got in a few cuts. At a staff meeting, Baker found an official major league baseball next to his coffee cup. Said another...
Stage right features a sandbagged gun emplacement manned by two semi-jocular Australian gunners (Robert...
...dealer from Brooklyn, Cohen studied under Ivan Galamian at Julliard. Before joining the Beaux Arts Trio in 1968, Cohen spent more than ten years with the Julliard String Quartet. He has also appeared as a guest artist with the distinguished Budapest Quartet. In some ways, Cohen is the most jocular of the Beaux Arts, often relieving the tension of rehearsals with a quick quip...
...movers packed up their belongings, the departing couple exchanged alternately jocular and tearful reminiscences with friends and neighbors at a series of farewell get-togethers. After a final embrace in the empty house that they had regretfully put up for sale, they boarded a plane for a flight to a distant city, where the husband plunged into a round of urgent business conferences. Another upwardly mobile executive family pulling up roots because of the husband's career? Well, yes, but with a difference: the job in this case is the presidency...