Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start, Judge Medina has had a hard time finding out exactly what the trustbusters' case is. Red-faced and quizzical, he has upbraided the Justice Department's lawyers time & again for "shilly-shallying," "going backwards," confusing the issues and wasting the court's time. Alternately benign and snappish with both sides, he has described his job, which keeps him working twelve hours a day even on Weekends, as "heartbreaking." Once, when a defense lawyer referred to some testimony introduced on "March 17," Medina wearily asked: "Which year...
...center panel, the mushroom cloud of an atomic-bomb explosion rose over scenes of destruction, flint-faced firing squads in U.S. uniforms, crucified and gibbeted North Koreans. At the left stood a benign Stalin, filially flanked by a boyish Mao Tse-tung, who held out the Red dove of peace to three glum cartoon villains-a gun-toting, Bible-clutching Uncle Sam, a fist-clenching John Bull, and a somewhat hung-over Marianne...
...Prime Minister rose slowly, savoring a minute-long ovation from the government side. His face-pink, smooth and beaming-wore a misleadingly benign, born-yesterday look. But a white handkerchief protruded like a jaunty battle flag above his pocket. Coolly Churchill adjusted his oratorical bombsight and loosed the first blockbuster...
...Manhattan this week, Father LaFarge, 72, a tall, stooping man with a face of benign granite, got a dinner in his honor. The occasion: the celebration of his 25 years as an editor of the Jesuit weekly America (including four years as editor-in-chief). Besides fellow priests and other Catholic dignitaries, the program listed such non-Catholics as the Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert of the National Council of Churches, Chancellor Louis Finkelstein of Jewish Theological Seminary and President A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. They were all friends of a priest who has been...
...With a benign smile on his face and ready answers on his lips, Robert Alphonso Taft plodded through the Northwest last week, seeking the votes of delegates and the good will of men. Working 18-hour days (his smile was as big at 11 p.m. as it was at 6 a.m.), the Senator from Ohio held press conferences before breakfast, met coveys of politicians, students, businessmen and farmers, ate fried chicken at box suppers, and all the while held a steady bead on his main target: the Truman Administration...