Word: benignantly
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...benign monster loose in the land," Sidey said. Nothing is impossible--even a world with hookworm cured, no heart attacks, and an average income of $15,000 a year. What has been called "the improbable world of Lyndon Johnson," Sidney sees as "a simple but noble hope...
Died. Heinrich von Brentano, 60, West Germany's benign, scholarly Foreign Minister from 1955 to 1961, a founder and former floor leader of Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party, who as minister enthusiastically echoed der A he's support for NATO and the Common Market, while quietly pushing his own vision of a "Christian Western Europe" that would share a single culture, religion and constitution; of cancer; in Darmstadt, Germany...
...benign, incorruptible, father figure, Abboud alone could have rallied his freedom-loving, free-and-easy country men to his own austere goals of discipline and diligence...
...electorate like a mighty pipe organ. He drowned out concern over the Bobby Baker scandal and the war in Viet Nam with platitudes about peace, prosperity and prudence. While Goldwater ranted about TVA, social security, the Supreme Court and conventional nuclear weapons, Johnson issued the soothing assurances of a benign protector who promised to save the nation from the welter of international chaos with the sure touch of sober responsibility...
...calls for an identification with the entire populace, and using the populace's own words to talk to it. It is part sentimentality, part love; part forceful action, part slick derring-do. It believes unswervingly in the present and thinks the future can be better-under the benign guidance of Johnsonism...