Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...bond salesmen into twelve species. They include Legatus Caelestis, or Messenger from Mount Olympus, who "brings you eternal verities from on high (his firm's research department) "; Garrulus Defatigare, or Sophisticate, who bears "a bored air of nonchalance and yards of bond gossip"; and Hospes Hospitalis, or Jovial Host, who "will be anxious to have you share his innocent amusements. Handle this one with unusual caution...
...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...