Word: jocularities
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...barnstorming tour which had succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of any campaigning vote-seeker. But while Moscow's good-will ambassadors swelled with complacency at the air of universal approval surrounding them, their Indian hosts had begun to entertain some sober second thoughts. Bursting with genial, jocular generalities all along the line of march, the fun-loving Red Rover Boys had progressively proved more and more forgetful of the fact that Nehru's India still hugs a determined neutralism close to its heart. In one breath they decried the West's preoccupation with H-bombs; in another...
...Eisenhower's Nightmare is a jocular example of Author Russell's lifelong habit of studying the political scene through a blind eye. Eisenhower dreams that Senator McCarthy and Georgy Malenkov come to power and divide the world between them: the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. settle down into mutually happy totalitarianism. Moral (for Author Russell only): Never jump to conclusions on clay feet...
Later in the week, the general followed the celebrity's path to the speaker's rostrum of the National Press Club in Washington. There he reminisced in jocular, earthy language about his captivity. His roughest time, he said, came when the Communists questioned him for grueling periods-once for 68 hours, then 44 hours and then ten hours-trying to get him to reveal the defense plans for Japan. After one session, as he lay sleepless and freezing on the mud floor of his hut, he resolved to kill himself...
...Door of the church after a service is an important test: "Some [ministers] are stiff . . . Others are so effusive and indulge in pleasantries so jocular that it looks as though they are glad to get away from . . . devotion and back into the hello and titter of the world . . . Backslapping is nowhere in order . . . And, while I am at this, let me say, 'Preacher, don't paw people, especially women...
...doubt that any soldier of our country was ever so suddenly struck in his emotional vitals by a President with such an apparently sincere and certainly astounding proposition as this. Now & then, in conversations with friends, jocular suggestions had previously been made to me about a possible political career. My reaction was always instant repudiation, but to have the President suddenly throw this broadside into me left me no recourse except to treat it as a very splendid joke, which I hoped it was. I laughed heartily and said: "Mr. President, I don't know who will be your...