Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come all the way from Bulgaria just to go to Harvard. Anybody who would travel that far to go to school must have something on the ball." That's all there is to it. Once the grader has decided the writer must be clever, he reads the exam through benign eyes...
...would now be boss in Chicago? The machine professionals wanted a benign-looking, dependable party wheelhorse named Joe Gill. Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas, chief federal patronage dispenser since Scott Lucas' defeat, wanted energetic young County Clerk Richard Daley, who also had the backing of Governor Adlai Stevenson. That equivocating enigma, Chicago's Mayor Martin Kennelly, wanting to get re-elected in April, and needing the old guard's machine support, took a position in between. Result: a compromise, with Gill as interim chairman until the mayoralty election, and Daley as vice chairman. The solution merely postponed...
Although he once rebelled at western costumes, he now-in keeping with his mission-wears a ten-gallon hat and cowboy boots at all times. He is also convinced that his public does not consider him an actor, but simply a friend-a sort^ of ^benign but colorful uncle whom it instinctively wants to invite for dinner...
...feet in bedroom slippers, was carried to the aircraft to start what may be his final pilgrimage to Moscow. He said goodbyes to the bigwigs of French Communism: Jacques Duclos, looking like the tubby mayor of a little French town; Andre Marty, his fanatic face wearing an uncommonly benign look; hard-boiled Red Labor Chief Benoit Frachon in a green raincoat...
...mild little Manhattan junkman, fond of dogs, children and his fellow man. While the T-men break up big counterfeiting rings, he goes blandly on passing his outrageously crude singles. He prints only about 50 a month, barely enough to keep him and his dog shabbily independent. His benign (and shrewd) policy: no more than one to a customer. When the agents finally nab him, they are wholly disarmed-and frustrated all over again-by his gentle air and toothless, guiltless grin...