Word: jovially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jovial feelings were shattered as I stepped up on the curb in front of Out of Town News, "Square Deal! Free Square coupons!" said one of the masses that flocked like vultures around me. "Two for one drinks!" another pitched in. "Wheelchair basketball," said a third. I had reverted back--back to my old self and I swore, right there, that I would never return, to the other side of the leaflet...
Despite his inexperience, the jovial Kohl may get along better than Schmidt did with Ronald Reagan and Britain's Margaret Thatcher. The fact that the three share a conservative political philosophy may be more important than one impediment to mutual understanding: Kohl speaks little English. In Washington, White House officials note with pleasure such Kohl statements as: "People have come to think of the Soviet Union only as a détente and trade partner. We have to remind them of the true nature of Soviet expansionism...
Whoever said you had to be six feet tall to play women's basketball? No one who knew senior Denise D. Williamson, a short and jovial senior who led the women's basketball teams for the past four years...
After him it would be Amplanger's turn, one of the 'new men': ruthlessly dynamic, jovial, robust-his smile was enough to scare a person, and perhaps they needed him quickly to kill him off spectacularly, and could therefore get himself-Tolm-quietly out of the way. Amplanger stood for stock exchange, Olympic shooting team, tennis, Zummerling, and teeth-grinding ruthlessness. Perhaps they wanted to speed up Amplanger's election-he, Tolm, radiated too many humanistic thoughts, self-doubts, too much capitalist melancholy...
...scandal involving the membership of high government officials in a mysterious Masonic lodge. So far, Spadolini seems to be faring reasonably well In a recent poll, 62% of those interviewed approved of the way he is handling his job, a high figure in a notoriously cynical electorate. But the jovial Prime Minister has a handicap. A member of the small center Republican Party, he is the first non-Christian Democrat to head a government in 36 years. Even a small crisis could bring down his fragile five-party coalition government and send Spadolini through those swinging doors...