Word: benignantly
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...seen and not heard. But not the new Miss America, who is a ventriloquist and thus has two voices. The night she reached the finals, Vonda Kay Van Dyke, 21, of Phoenix, chirruped: "Barry Goldwater, here I come!" But once the crown was in place, she became a benign queen, and said: "I think the President is our greatest man." Then she was off for a series of nationwide appearances that will earn her $75,000, in addition to the $11,000 in scholarships she will use next fall at the State University. The other girls were already on their...
...most of its victims, the cold sore that breaks out on the lips is an annoying, repetitive sign of a not too serious infection. But unlike its more benign viral cousins that cause the common cold, the herpes simplex virus that produces cold sores or fever blisters can in rare instances cause blindness, if it spreads to the eye, and death, if it reaches the brain. For years medical researchers have unsuccessfully attempted to concoct a herpes vaccine that would provide immunity...
...extol the half eye's compactness in the pocket, its lightness on the nose, the way it allows women to apply eye makeup and see what they're doing. Deep down, though, half-spec wearers know that the main reason they wear them is the expression -quizzical, benign, worldly-wise-that they impart to even the most pudding-faced peerer...
...money, protectively escorts him everywhere to keep him on the straight and narrow. "People say Bud is crazy or lost or silent." says Poudras, "but he is really in a state of grace." Powell still spends most evenings sitting quietly alone, smiling to himself, wrapped in a cocoon of benign silence. Yet to anyone who has seen him since he fled to Europe, he seems to have undergone a miracle cure. On good days now he even chats happily. For the first time in years, his message is hopeful: "Please tell everybody that...
...painted as being comprised of persons wearing the right tie, speaking the proper accent, boasting at least four quarterings of nobility, and lacking any suspicion of brains or talent. Yet both this society, and an ambitious young man's relentless efforts to crash it, are viewed with a benign complacency that weakens any satiric intent...