Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Warren Buffett, the Omaha, Nebraska, investor whom Gates demoted to being merely the second richest American, seems an unlikely person to be among his closest pals. A jovial, outgoing 66-year-old grandfather, Buffett only recently learned to use a computer. But as multibillionaires go, both are unpretentious, and they enjoy taking vacations together. Buffett's secretary apologetically explains that Buffett isn't giving interviews these days and at the moment is traveling, but she promises to pass along the request. Less than three hours later, Buffett calls to say he happens to be in the Time & Life Building with...
...jovial professor of Science A-35: "Matter in the Universe" said he was not as excited by the rivalry as were some of his colleagues because he taught at the University of Michigan for 10 years...
...enthusiastic and jovial barber, Ferrara teased even some of his most prominent customers, including Kissinger ("When he took his glasses off, I told him he looked like the actor, James Whitmore," he told The Boston Globe in 1984) and the Aga Khan (who was "just a regular fella...
Often urging the more jovial governor to get serious, the senator's calm and collected debate style was often impressive...
...part, Mr. Hilditch seems uneasily enigmatic, even to himself. He lives in a substantial house he inherited from his mother and maintains an air of jovial respectability with his co-workers. When he recalls the other young women he has befriended, he does not allow himself to think of what happened to them. His interior monologues are conducted in euphemisms. Pondering the arrival of the Irish girl, ``he finds himself exhilarated by the circumstances that have been presented to him, and only regrets that the ordained brevity of this relationship is an element in those circumstances also...