Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to admit that I loved this question, and it was not pride or conceit but rather a kind of benign excitement that I felt when I told my friends that I was going to live in an Aboriginal community in Central Australia, where I would teach Aboriginal children how to read...
Consider a scene in his magnificent 1893 book, The Wilderness Hunter: one minute Roosevelt watches, with a benign Wild Kingdom-documentary fascination, as two rutting bull elk clash in the Bitterroot Mountains, with a third bull, whom Roosevelt calls "the peacemaker," trying to intervene, and the next minute, having made the reader see and almost love the animals and wish them well in the exuberant politics of their courtships, Teddy lifts his rifle and blows away all the bulls, dropping them one, two, three...
Brain surgery without blood? Sounds like science fiction, but research shows that an instrument called a gamma knife can safely--and bloodlessly--shrink acoustic neuromas, one of the most common forms of benign brain tumor. The "knife" delivers a onetime dose of radiation that's shaped to the exact parameters of the targeted tumor...
...hide the damage." While Morton maintained that Diana was right to be jealous of Camilla, Junor insists that for years after the wedding, Camilla was just one of Charles' many good friends. Junor also asserts that the infamous bracelet Charles gave Camilla before his wedding had a more benign significance: the initials "GF" on it stood for the platonic "Girl Friday," Junor claims, not pet nicknames Gladys and Fred, as Diana believed. Junor also alleges that Diana made late-night anonymous phone calls to Camilla, saying things like "I've sent someone to kill you. They're outside...
Since those giddy days, Muhammad Ali, ne Cassius Clay, has done two things nobody thought possible: he has finally stopped talking, and he has become universally popular. Those who know him now only as a benign, spectral presence at sports events and testimonial ceremonies can have no idea how much noise this man once made or what confusion he sowed in some people's heads. Previous athletes had been loved or hated, and that was that, but Ali had been both at the same time. Half of you wanted to see his head handed to him, the other half sort...