Word: jovial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life's energy, makes a last ditch effort to make contact with his wife. In a most pitiful manner he crawls around to the front of the dune, only to be greeted by Winnie's cheerful, "My, what a pleasant surprise." The impropriety of his wife's politely jovial remark seems to do Willie in, while Winnie is left operating out of her optimism, happily awaiting the day she is melted away...
...questions got the same treatment. We had almost memorized the history of the People's Republic two hours later, when the jovial Mr. Liu decided we had learned enough about the intricacies of the Revolutionary Committee and the Communist Party. He thanked us for being so attentive and commended the intelligence exhibited in our questions. Our group leader presented Liu with a set of albums recorded by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Mr. Liu and his guides filed ceremoniously out, leaving us no more aware of what goes on in the Communist Party than we had been when the meeting...
...presided at a White House dinner, the first in two months, for visiting Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. The next evening Nixon was in a rare jovial mood at a reception at the Rumanian embassy. He patted shoulders and threw mock punches. Urging Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns to visit Rumania, Nixon declared: "You visit there one time and look at the girls. Rumanian girls are pretty." Then he was spotted by Secretary Rose Mary Woods, who exclaimed: "Doesn't he look well...
...dinner in the State Dining Room with 25 Democratic Congressmen, mostly from the South, was no smashing success either. One listener described Nixon as "taut and extremely tense, gesturing wildly." North Carolina's Ike Andrews found Nixon relaxed and jovial but the situation awkward. Said he: "We were guests in his home?it makes it difficult to ask him questions. The first question was about the Middle East, and he took 21 minutes to answer it. There were a couple more innocuous questions, then somebody said politely, 'Thank you for this pleasant evening, but most of us thought...
Nixon, looking confident and jovial, made no mention of the scandal which brought the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew on Wednesday, or the other scandals which have beset his administration...