Word: jollyness
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Jowly & Jolly. "Our strength lies in our nationalistic feeling," asserts King Bhumibol, and the men who run Thailand are well aware that their youthful King is their-and the nation's-greatest living asset. Among the most important, military and civilian, members of Thailand's ruling oligarchy:
> Praphas Charusathien, 54, the jowly and jolly commander in chief of the army, Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and most visibly active and outspoken man in government. Given to bow ties and dark glasses, Praphas bridles when his extensive business dealings are mentioned. Since he controls both army and police forces...
the jolly boys are cranky.
Beaming avuncularly at the reporters wedged three and four deep around his White House desk, the President observed: "I would say we all ought to be commended for our good spirits and jolly frame of mind. I appreciate the good humor you are all in. I don't know...
Pope and his maumetry"), and jolly sectarian scuttlebutt about such adulterous priests as the one who, "haunting to an honest man's wife, was subtly taken creeping through a window, and hanged out of the window in a gin laid for him of purpose." The body of his book...