Word: joviality
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...atmosphere was jovial as the former Harvard Varsity athletes relived their most exciting experiences...
...intense new Pope labored in the shadow of his jovial, grandfatherly predecessor, Pope John XXIII. It was John's revolution that he inherited, with John's open, hopeful stamp of approval upon it. In the years that followed, the movement that John called aggiornamento, or modernization, became part of a revolution larger than John had foreseen-a tumultuous moral and social upheaval around the world. Both inside and outside the church, old values were questioned, traditional authority challenged...
...jovial lunch as we fell to at table. Grover, a bachelor, rarely gave his gifted cook an opportunity to prepare the hearty Burgundian meals in which she specialized, so now for the great General Eisenhower she had outdone herself. The wine went round and round, the pastries of ham-curls stuffed with goose liver piled...
After the address, Carter seemed jovial. Later in the week he even found time to chase a Frisbee on the White House lawn. His aides, meanwhile, professed to be surprised that most commentators were more impressed by the hard language than the olive branch. Some of the phrasing undoubtedly fueled the worries of Carter's critics about U.S.-Soviet relations. Idaho's Senator Frank Church grumbled: "We are hearing the old tactic, the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming, and it is being used with disturbing frequency...
...Jovial smile on his lips, apple core charm dangling from his keychain and cameras clicking away around him, Dean Rosovsky yesterday was clearly a happy man. The Faculty had just passed the Core Curriculum, Rosovsky's pet project, over two-and-a-half years in the making...