Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courtroom wall, over the grey head of the comrade president of the tribunal, hung the Red star emblem with hammer & sickle, and under the flag was the portrait of the all-powerful leader. But the face of the leader seemed to have changed: it was not the slyly benign mask of Joseph Stalin; it was the square, rather brutal face of Josip Broz Tito...
Specifically, the executive must "listen to a lot of claptrap from union stewards who are riding him, and face pressure from government officials. After that, the executive must express benign, gentle, persuasive attitudes...
...square and erect, giving the impression of great strength . . . [His] fine dark eyes . . . did not impress me either as 'gentle,' as one observer thought, or 'cold as steel,' as others have remarked, but they are alert, expressive and intelligent ... He seems at times actually benign. There is no question but that he can be brutally abrupt...
...writes, that the idea first took root that psychoanalysis and religion could somehow lie down together and live happily ever after. "In America all races and creeds live and work peacefully side by side-why should not ideas do likewise? . . . It is . . .in such a benign climate of opinion that the current love affair between psychoanalysis and religion has been, time & again, consummated. There have been bickerings . . . and the Catholic Church has shown itself to be a rather frigid partner. But, all in all, things have gone well, and the occasional Catholic reserve has been more than made...
Poultry Week. The symbol for the build-up was Communist Artist Pablo Picasso's "Dove of Peace." Everywhere in the Soviet sector, on handbills, stickers and banners, the benign bird cooed Communist "pacifism." Berliners only sneered at the "Trojanische Taube" (Trojan dove); they dubbed each propaganda flurry as "Geflűgel Woche" (Poultry Week...