Word: avuncularity
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...have never met anyone at Harvard able to match my tales of the people who lived in Stoughton my freshman year. Person for person, they were psychos. Zozo and Yarco, Stoughton's hulky Cuban sentinels, pouncing upon each girl as she entered the dorm: "What did you do tonight?" (Avuncular whine) "Who were you with?" (Leer) "Were his roommates there?" (Snicker) "A lady wouldn't do that." (Dismissed); Rob, the awestruck and disoriented Midwestern roommate of the Death Poet, wandering about sadly, latching onto anyone who would listen, occasionally making conversation with the two calculator-addled physics jocks who haunted...
...have never met anyone at Harvard able to match my tales of the people who lived in Stoughton my freshman year. Person for person, they were psychos. Zozo and Yarco, Stoughton's hulky Cuban sentinels, pouncing upon each girl as she entered the dorm: "What did you do tonight?" (Avuncular whine) "Who were you with?" (Leer) "Were his roommates there?" (Snicker) "A lady wouldn't do that." (Dismissed); Rob, the awestruck and disoriented Midwestern roommate of the Death Poet, wandering about sadly, latching onto anyone who would listen, occasionally making conversation with the two calculator-addled physics jocks who haunted...
...deal with Congress. Said the Speaker: "There should be close relations between the Congress and the man who has the President's ear. I've never understood why he wasn't at the leadership breakfasts." But by meeting's end O'Neill had turned avuncular, giving Jordan a list of names of Congressmen and key aides he should get to know. Concluded the Speaker: "Bygones are bygones...
Those who are supposedly part-time officials, like Baldwin, make as little as $85 a week. Even the full-time incumbents get meager pay, from which must be deducted the psychic cost of public cynicism. Don Quaintance of Marion, Ohio, a white-haired, avuncular former businessman who got to the mayor's chair in middle age, thinks that kind of attitude has grown a lot during his eight years in office. He bitterly recalls a dinner with his wife and some friends at the country club. Talk got around to inflation and the size of his salary...
...this sounds unconventional, so is the avuncular Dreyfus, whose wife Joyce refers to him affectionately as "Flannel Mouth." After his upset victory over Democratic Incumbent Governor Martin Schreiber, he is emerging as a bright new Republican figure...