Word: avuncularly
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...south. He sat down last week in Baghdad for an interview with TIME reporter Christopher Allbritton. Iraqi police officers stood nearby, but signs of U.S. patronage were everywhere. Even the air conditioners bore the label PROPERTY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Dressed in a natty plaid suit, Allawi was alternately avuncular and forceful...
DIED. JOHN RANDOLPH, 88, avuncular character actor; in Los Angeles. Familiar on TV (Roseanne) and in movies (Serpico, You've Got Mail), he had an even longer career onstage, winning a Tony for his role as a left-wing grandfather in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. The role echoed his life as a self-proclaimed "old radical" who was blacklisted in the 1950s...
...Vajpayee's new status as paramount leader of the BJP is a turnaround for the 79-year-old politician, who was once sidelined within the party because of his reputation as a moderate. A Hindi poet of some merit, Vajpayee is known for his witty repartee and avuncular congeniality. With his tendency to speak in cryptic one-liners, the Prime Minister is often a sphinxlike figure, who leaves observers guessing about his true feelings on issues such as Hindu nationalism. Under his prime ministership, however, the BJP-led coalition that has ruled India since 1998 has disappointed Hindu fundamentalists...
Catharine's ardor rises. "Absence rather increases than lessens my affections," she writes. But by now Franklin senses all this may be going too far, and he retreats to an avuncular tone, advising her to marry and surround herself with "clusters of plump, juicy, blushing, pretty little rogues like their Mama...
...Gawler, an avuncular, semi-retired flight engineer, is navigating my journey into deep childhood, starting with the shrubbery behind Hong Kong's Kowloon Bowling Green Club (KBGC). Gawler is one of its longest-standing members. "The fa wong [gardener] had a house here and a well," he says. "All the kids used to play here, remember...