Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lucky one." Some luck. When she was eleven months old, her mother succumbed to tuberculosis; her father later put her and her older sister in a Catholic convent school, and she learned at the age of six that he had suddenly died of ptomaine poisoning. Convent life was benign but austere. Three winters in a row she suffered pneumonia so severe that a priest administered Extreme Unction...
...doctrine of containment shortly after the end of World War II, ruminated at a reunion of State Department planners about how these global changes have made the East- West ideological struggle less relevant to how the world is ordered. Says Kennan, who in recent years has adopted a more benign view of the Soviet Union: "The whole principle of containment as that term was conceived when it was used by me back in 1946 is almost entirely irrelevant to the problems we and the rest of the civilized world face today." Declares Ohio University Professor John Lewis Gaddis, a noted...
...lean and rumpled patrician who trained with the Detroit Lions and then shared that male fantasy with football fans in his best-selling Paper Lion. Now, in The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, Plimpton indulges the fantasy that he is a novelist. The book, which began as a benign hoax in the April 1, 1985, issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is based on a charming conceit: a narrator suffering from writer's block tells the story of Sidd Finch, a British-born Buddhist-trained monk who can throw a baseball 168 m.p.h with unfailing accuracy. Sidd, short for Siddhartha, joins...
...memories (enacted in scenes interspersed with their meal) do they reveal much of what they are really feeling. Then a casual question makes plain that the woman who seems the most contented is in fact coping with cruel domestic tragedy and that her friends' seeming triviality amounts to a benign conspiracy of silence to allow her a few moments of escape...
Gannon also reports that the Union is home to a ghost. "He's a very benign apparition, and decidedly nocturnal. It's my guess that it's a wayward freshman from long ago," he said...