Word: affectionate
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The sustained standing ovation that greeted the President was bipartisan. The lawmakers demonstrated their affection for a likable man, who had borne up under the shooting ordeal with courage, humor and no hint of self-pity. Sensitive to the situation, Reagan, with a thespian's finesse, did not overplay...
No one in Giscard's entourage has any doubt that a disgruntled electorate will punish the President in the first election round. In next month's runoff, though, his advisers are counting on French apprehensions, rather than gratitude or affection to win Giscard another seven years in the...
By all accounts it is a romantic one. She feels affection for the lonely self-doubting scientists who work late into the night. For Goodfield, solitude reflects the quality of science. We are continually told that science is best done when one is solitary, both literally and scientifically. While this...
"It was the tenor of the times," she says of that period. "But during the past campaign, and certainly since the election, the only thing we felt was such warmth and affection that [fear of attack] wasn't up front Her restraint begins to dissolve as she goes over...
That so many questions from reporters during the early hours of last week's crisis concerned Brady's health may have seemed somewhat baffling to those outside the press corps. In twelve short weeks on the job, he had succeeded, despite the difficulties inherent in his work, in winning both...