Word: jovialities
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...jovial, kindhearted prelate who still speaks with a strong Irish brogue, O'Boyle had first tried persuasion with the recalcitrant priests. In a ten-page letter to each of them last month, he exuded a gentle, parental tone. "I hope you'll read [this] through," O'Boyle wrote. "Try to understand why I see things the way I do, and try to reconsider your own position." When the priests replied, in a joint statement, that they were sticking to their position, the Cardinal warned a dozen of them that they might be suspended. He later summoned...
...place for the eloquent bass guitarist building up elegant harmonies a la Paul McCartney, and John Entwistle knows and does better. A big solid unsmiling figure on stage dressed in black with a white ruffled vest ("I don't move around so I can wear fancy clothes") he is jovial and enourmously pleasant in the dressing room. "There's no other bass guitarist that's better than me because I don't play it like a bass guitar." And it's true, he doesn't. He plays it aggressively like a lead guitar, contributing positively always to the overall arrangement...
Life at Cambridge is an eye-opening experience, wrote Britain's Prince Charles, 19, in a maiden essay for the undergraduate newspaper Varsity-particularly at 7 a.m., when the "head-splitting clang" of garbage cans is "accompanied by the jovial dustman's monotonous refrain O Come, All Ye Faithful." After reading that, the Cambridge Urban District Council promptly rerouted Dustman Frank Clarke so that he appeared under the prince's windows at 9 a.m. rather than 7. "I am a bloke who likes to sing at his work," admitted Clarke. "But I think 7 o'clock...
...FIRST U.S. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) seems too jovial and soft-spoken to be one of the heroes in the Senate debate on Vietnam. But since December, 1964, Gore has been unyielding in his vigorous opposition...
Within two hours, arresting officers returned to the station with five more prisoners. The new arrivals were greeted with a jovial cheer from the first group, which was still being processed by police...