Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark but necessary secrecy, the uncounted billions spent for uncounted numbers of atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, atomic cannon, nuclear submarines and still-secret devices which may exceed them all in power for ruination. Now the story of the peaceful atom has begun to unfold. Some of the benign works of atomic energy already under...
...There before another camera, a pathologist examined it under a microscope, ticking off the tumor's characteristics in a matter-of-fact tone. At this point the tension was fever high. Was the tumor cancerous? The pathologist finally said, hesitantly at first, then with conviction: "It's benign. Yes, it's benign...
...students punishment, one could hardly expect the Faculty to look kindly on students' playing with pistols--loaded or not. Although the Harvard duel was a harmless one and actually amusing, the professors and tutors were irate. After "long and painful consideration" they solemnly admonished Foster, English, and the two benign seconds...
...slowly reduces Bryan to a mental pulp and physical exhaustion. A wonderful example of the high hamming that is equally the forte of skilled actors and skilled trial lawyers, it makes Muni and Darrow indistinguishable. Ed Begley's Bryan is excellent also, though this is a more benign figure at the trial than the Bryan who, as H. L. Mencken watched him, "writhed and tossed in a very fury of malignancy," and not quite so benighted a figure as the Bryan who actually contested the fact that man is a mammal...
...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...