Word: genial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turbine appears. A different set of screens shows a colorful cutaway drawing of a house. Wondering how to make your home energy-efficient? Just touch the attic, for example, and watch a demonstration of how to insulate it. According to Emmett Cunningham of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the genial director of the exhibit, "It's the best and most durable public information system I've seen in 25 years in the exposition business...
...debate roundhouse punches--in Nashua, N.H. over an unnerved George Bush ("I paid for this microphone") and on national television over a helpless Jimmy Carter ("Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"). Instead, Reagan's tactics appear honed to present an image of a genial yet commanding leader, one in control both of issues and himself...
...dignified, genial patriarch of the University's rate book depository plans merely to shift his attention from administration to personal studies and teaching, both of which naturally focus on explaining books to others. After spending next term doing research on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he will resume his duties as Professor of Bibliography for three final years-until he reaches mandatory retirement...
Ensuring that his hero gets squared off and paired up is not the only thing on Forsyth's mind. He has a genial taste for mild eccentrics and sees to it that plenty of them wander in and out of Gregory's life. There is a friend who is overstuffed with useless facts ("Did you know when you sneeze it comes out of your nose at 160 miles per hour?" he inquires of a girl he's trying to impress), a headmaster who encourages a student's underground traffic in exotic pastry because...
...Boys take their seats. In Fenway Park their preferred view is from Section 22, behind home plate. In this Florida jewel box (capacity: 3,800), the Old Boys have developed private territories, holding court in fixed locations where their friends can seek them out, or their enemies-the genial shufflers with a copy of Baseball Digest under one arm and a fiendish trivia question up their sleeve. Eddie Fegan, waggling his cane with the stylishness of Jimmy Cagney, presides over the front row behind third base. Bob Caterino, wearing his jacket with the legend SOMERVILLE BOXING CLUB across the chest...