Word: jovialness
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...Bert Lance problem was at first nothing more than a minor personal crisis for Lance. A jovial, energetic friend of the President's was suddenly found to be something less than the financial wizard and fixture of probity that everyone had been led to believe...
Throughout the final day of play Green seemed jovial and even a little cocky as he hobnobbed with his caddy and stroked his putts confidently. His behavior brings to mind Bernard Darwin's depiction of Francis Ouimet winning the Open from British rivals Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in 1913. Ouimet's victory was a watershed in the history of the U.S. Open for it signaled the emergence of American golfers who were of the same caliber as their British counterparts...
...Prez," as Jones is affectionately known by staff and students alike, is jovial and easygoing-given, as he says, to "talking up a breeze." A storyteller in the Southern tradition, he splashes his tales with emphatic "Oh, Lord's" and resounding laughs. As he drives around his 380-acre campus in a canvas-topped Oldsmobile 98, he waves to students and invites visits to his office. There, a small plaque on his desk proclaims LOVE YOUR ENEMIES; BLESS THEM THAT CURSE YOU. Says Jones: "I'm a front-row, 'amen' Baptist deacon...
...Arkansas twang of Dick Moose rattles the phone lines again. Tough, bright, energetic and jovial, Moose worked his special way through State, the White House and the Hill, calling accurate shots on Viet Nam and other world trouble spots. He will be an Under Secretary of State with more power and a mustache, but the same soul. Dick Moose walks through the corridors of Foggy Bottom as if he had never left. In spirit he never...
...years the markets have taken root in such disparate cities as Louisville, Syracuse, Santa Fe, N. Mex., and Honolulu. This year alone, farmers have opened new beachheads in Pittsburgh, San Jose, Calif., and Birmingham, among other cities. At the Greenmarket, a lot on Manhattan's East Side, 18 jovial farmers and their families roll their trucks in from upstate before dawn and roll out past dark with sales of as much as $16,000 worth of produce in their pockets...