Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarters on the second floor of the Foreign Ministry building, jovial Premier Hazza Majali, 44, one of the West's best friends in the Arab world, was killed instantly by a huge bomb that burst in his desk drawer...
...pushed, relentlessly, coolly, gathering applause, staving off trouble from the opposition. Between caucuses, he held court with a parade of politicos in his Biltmore suite (Apartment Q), or checked new lists and new threats. Going into a meeting with New Yorkers, he bumped into a jovial but tense Lyndon Johnson. "Why don't you take a nap?" kidded Lyndon. "I've got that one all sewed up." Kennedy showed impressive muscle in his first big key play with the Pennsylvania delegation (81 votes). For months Governor David Leo Lawrence, one of the nation's strongest Democratic bosses...
...better personify the tragic ironies of the Algerian revolt than burly, jovial Ahmed Boumendjel. A onetime Paris lawyer and councilor of the French Union, Boumendjel has hundreds of friends among French politicians and journalists, to whom he is affectionately known as "Boum." A latecomer to the rebel cause, he joined Algeria's Front de Liberation Nationale only after his younger brother died during "interrogation" by French paratroopers in Algiers in 1956. Presumably, his mission would serve incidentally to give Boumendjel a chance to see his French wife and two teen-age daughters, whom he left behind in Paris when...
...soundless shouts of joy are what interest Author Sarraute. When Alain, launched on a long, funny story, realizes in mid-speech that his listeners are becoming bored, he cannot decide whether to aban don the story or blunder on to its now flat conclusion. When Gisele's jovial mother wants to surprise the newlyweds with a gift of leather chairs and discovers that the gift is unwanted, self-pity drowns...
...purpose of his jovial sallies-like that of his sudden tantrums-is to make his listeners attentive. In fact, his technique is best expressed by the venerable Russian proverb: "It is the same with men as with asses; whoever would hold them fast must get a very good grip on their ears...