Word: benignantly
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...begin a U.S. concert tour, Britain's mellowing (80) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, accompanied by his 27-year-old bride of five months, showed further signs of gaining on the famed terrible temper that he once lost daily. He even waved a tiny U.S. flag, mustered an almost benign expression...
...Almanacks. Franklin also set down his basic religious outlook, a kind of deism that made him a logical child of the rationalist Enlightenment. Instinctively a yea-sayer to life, Franklin came very close to believing that whatever is is good. In "Articles of Belief" he offers up a characteristically benign prayer, "O Creator, O Father, I believe that thou art Good, and that thou art pleas'd with the Pleasure of thy Children...
...both domestic and foreign capital with tax concessions. Overseas capital was lured with such attractions as no capital gains tax, guarantees of repatriation of profits and assurances that the capital itself could be repatriated. Some critics argued that the breaks were too big. Menzies' answer is that the benign investment climate has encouraged so many businessmen to reinvest that 25% of Australia's national income is plowed right back into new expansion...
...Vincible couches its philippics in an aphoristic style of baroque density, alliteratively peppered with Peter Piperisms, e.g., "Many myths thus made the marvelous mirage." But its basic message is simple and fervent: the U.S. must think its way through to the right answers, for "our nation lives under no benign dispensation from such tragedy as has tormented and broken empires of past ages...
...still installing telephones. But even in the chaos of moving day, Room 832 was as busy as an anthill. Its mission was supposed to be a secret, but nearly everybody in Washington knew that staffers of the new Nixon Club were beaver-busy organizing a presidential campaign under the benign and smoothly efficient direction of the most successful Republican political cam paign manager in U.S. history-Leonard Hall of Oyster...