Word: avuncularity
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...consensus at the House is that Kevertian indeed would be an improvement on the old Speaker and his dictatorial ways. For George Keverian, finally out from under McGee's shadow, has proven himself to be a friendly, avuncular figure, much beloved by his colleagues, open to the press and eager to make amends for his previous association with McGee. Onlookers in the State House are betting that amiability will win Keverian the Speaker's seat...
DIED. Michael Conrad, 62, gravel-voiced actor who won two Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Sergeant Phil Esterhaus, the garrulous, gruffly avuncular police officer, who cautioned his patrolmen each week to "be careful out there" on television's Hill
...Northern Ireland Office. Said British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in Ottawa at the start of a visit to Canada and the U.S.: "It is the gravest [breakout] in our present history, and there must be a very deep inquiry." An embarrassed James Prior, Britain's seasoned, avuncular Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, immediately announced a high-level inquiry headed by Sir James Hennessy, Britain's chief inspector of prisons...
...spot at ABC News Others noted his initial reluctance in 1967 to "sell out" as a field correspondent to become a co-anchor with Howard K. Smith, a position he subsequently held for three years, until ABC--seeking a ratings boost--replaced him with the more avuncular Harry Reasoner. But since resuming anchor duties on ABC's revamped news program in 1978, his friends continued, Reynolds had helped pull the once-struggling network into a solid second place behind long-dominant CBS. And finally, they said, ever since--because?--Reynolds took ill several months ago, World News Tonight had dropped...
...studios in Los Angeles is dark. The backdrop of khaki-drab Korean hills and everything that might serve as inventory, booty or memento have disappeared. Gone are the tables, tubing, clamps and surgical gowns from O.R.; neither the blandly frazzled Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) nor the avuncular Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) will preside any more over that surgeons' battlefield. In the mess hall, the serving trays and cigarette packs are missing; Corporal Klinger (Jamie Farr), the drag queen of 4077, will never again ask Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) to give absolution to the food. The officers...