Word: benignantly
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...Europe," as Watson called it. He changed the company's name to International Business Machines, expanded still more. His high, stiff collars, his aversion to smoking and drinking, his vast store of aphorisms became trademarks of IBM to the outside world. Inside his company, he operated like a benign patriarch. IBM's workers were among the best paid in industry, had other benefits that few companies had. At company banquets, Watson liked to lead his employees in singing company songs such as his Hail to IBM* anthem. Every executive, both big and little, became a polished speechmaker...
...Field's benign pomposity does not go unaided in this classic drama of heavy spending. His determined chase for road hogs is sandwiched between the tales of other recipients of a cranky millionaire's bounty, handled by a cast of old-timers...
...dean's mother knew of this duty, did she have any preconceived idea about it, or were the circumstances such as to make the dean a lucky number. I have told my innocent flock that in any case, we owe to the dean's Godfearing and benign mother the life of this apostle of the unborn babe...
...cherub?" Watching the old man take his seat on a large dais, Sutherland made up his mind. "He took up a position as a tiger. The lip was out. The head was challenging. The eyes were looking direct." Then and there, he made his choice between Churchill the benign and humorous and Churchill the uncompromising. "It seemed to me essential," Sutherland explained, "that Churchill should be portrayed with a certain degree of intransigence-with the moral fiber to have withstood the enemy...
...longer a self conscious cub, but a swiftly-maturing Bear, Brown stands proudly in the midst of the more imposing Ivy group colleges. Gone are the high squeals of protest against accusations of inferiority. In their place have come the benign rumble of individuality.Noon class break on the Old Campus...