Word: benignantly
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...Third Crisis (Eisenhower's heart attack); the chief Executive ought to be a man immensely impressed, almost overwhelmed, with the dignity and solemnity of his office. More essentially, he runs the government as the Republican Party has throughout this century hoped it to be run, as the benign head of a Cabinet system that determines fundamental policy. There are no messy, squabbling, White House staffs. The President, like Mr. Nixon when his chief was in the hospital, consults his Cabinet, resolves its views into harmony, and distills from it the vital "essences" of decision that will keep the nation peaceful...
India and Pakistan, deadly rivals, were engaged in a benign competition: each was trying to outdo the other in the warmth of its greetings to Visitor Jacqueline Kennedy-and each had obviously decided that the way to her heart was through her fondness for animals. Indeed, Jackie must have thought at times last week that she was visiting an Asian menagerie...
...Reno area. The friends and relatives who have taken turns keeping Mary company join her for dinner served family style, with everyone seated around a big table to eat hearty, ranch-hand's food. All is clapboard-clean and comfortable, and the easy, friendly pace has had its benign effect on Mary. Friends say that she looks wonderful...
...gesture. The tone and what he is reading give one the sense of listening to the words of a great stone oracle. All this makes him sound much more formidable than he really is, for what makes this stone oracle in black tie seem human is its weary, benign expression, and its sense of the playful...
That was Sam Rayburn's accomplishment, and not even the memory of the sharp, benign figure who presided at party conventions will be missed so much. His successor will most likely be John McCormack, who will soon experience the overwhelming loneliness of the speaker, who must, often sympathizing neither with the President nor with his chamber, act to reconcile them both. Rayburn sat in that isolated chair for 18 years, trying at once to legislate and to preserve his integrity and humanity; and he was successful...