Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, a wizened, bent and benign old man of 87, Adolph Buch came shuffling up the dirt road to Lowu Bridge that leads out of Red China into free Hong Kong. He no longer had even his butterflies. Communist customs officials had taken them away. "Imagine it," said the old priest. "They accused me of wanting to send my collection to the States, to be sent back laden with germs...
...seventh grade on a boys' team upholding, against the girls, the affirmative of "Resolved, that insects are more beneficial than harmful." In characteristic fashion (he still does his own painstaking research on legislation and speeches), young Nixon went to an entomologist uncle and assembled a formidable body of benign facts about the insect world. The girls' team was routed...
Magnanimous Bob. Candidate Taft put on the benign air of a man who has already won the decision, and is just waiting until it is made official. Fighting Bob became magnanimous Bob; he was quicker to smile, less inclined to the harsh word, and seemed to feel a little sorry for his Republican opponents. Now & then a slight sneer flitted across his face, but on the whole he was a much more appealing television personality than the Fighting Bob of the last six months, who often looked ready to eat the microphone...
Whether he likes it or not, the President of Ireland ("The Man in the Park" to his constituents) must stand aloof from the rough & tumble of partisan politics. For seven years, benign, learned Sean O'Kelly has held the $32,000-a-year job and his tongue as well. It came hard to a man who was once as outspoken ("We'll whip John Bull yet! . . .") in the cause of Irish freedom as any in the land. Last month, as his first seven-year term drew to a close, O'Kelly faced the privilege granted...
...preoccupation with "the family" is fully as great as with world affairs, and she stays in constant and benign communication with all its branches. The chore involves writing and sending gifts to five children, 18 grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren, assorted cousins and nine daughters-in-law and ex-daughters-in-law. But by awesome attention to dates, awesome budgeting of her time, and by sitting up in bed to write letters almost nightly before going to sleep, she manages it, no matter how busy her life...