Word: avuncularity
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...John F. Kennedy Jr. blew his sister a kiss. Jackie, wearing a fitted, pale lime green sheath, bit her lip and struggled to hold back tears as she walked out of the church on the arm of Uncle Ted. He has walked other nieces down other aisles, and his avuncular presence is depended upon and appreciated. Still, one can safely guess that the old Kennedy New Frontiersmen sitting in the church were musing not just of weddings and brides and grooms but of the father of the bride, John F. Kennedy, who had bound them together decades ago and whose...
Tammy was no great singer, and Jim no penetrating interviewer, but their TV ascent was rapid. Says their avuncular announcer, Henry Harrison: "They were just a cute little couple that people felt good about watching." Soon Bakker was giddily expanding religious and charitable works at home and abroad, though shunning politics...
During his 14-day stay, said Rolf, he found a person very different from the dapper, even avuncular man-about-town he had seen in photographs. His father was intellectually alert and still on top of his Greek and Latin, Rolf recalled, "but he was a haunted creature," possessed by suicidal thoughts. At the same time, the doctor seemed to regret nothing. "There are no judges," Rolf recalled his father saying of his pursuers, "only avengers...
Anderson, an avuncular man who is active in Texas Republican politics, is worried because he has been hit by what he calls "two whammies." A few years ago, his land was worth $1,400 an acre. Now he figures it runs at best $1,000 an acre. Where he once could get 14 cents for a pound of rice, he now can expect only 8 cents. Each acre, in short, brought $700 when he harvested 5,000 lbs. of rice on it in the mid-'70s; now it brings him just...
...SOLACE of a second debate: President Reagan now knows that his four-year string of verbal inanities isn't going to deflate his cozy 15-point advantage. This battle really is over. Hail to our doting, yet avuncular Chief...