Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of Erhard's admirers had worried that he had not fully asserted himself since taking office. Now there could be little doubt that the genial fat man was really Chancellor of West Germany...
Best Bargain. The most fascinating effect of these scenes was a matter of chronology, as the program reached back across the nearer distance of Ike's genial presidency to show a man slightly but substantially different, reliving his somewhat presidential generalcy in command of the corporate war. Against the background of the vast invasion, with organization reaching to the horizons, his special colloquial touch stood out retrospectively as the small force that brought the great ones to human terms and made the whole huge enterprise go so well...
With his iron-grey hair, light blue eyes and dimpled chin, Syrian Strongman Amin Hafez, 42, conveys so genial a manner that it is hard to believe he is called the Butcher of Damascus. Last week he once again lived up to that name. Syria was a charnel house. In the midland city of Hama, mothers wailed over the bodies of dead sons, the famed Sultan Mosque lay in ruins, and the corpse of one rebel leader, riddled with 50 bullets, was contemptuously dumped by soldiers from an open jeep onto the sidewalk. The bloody-handed Baath (Renaissance) Party...
...Italy out of its economic bog, the country will have to depend heavily on IRI (pronounced eerie). But that is what IRI is there for. Founded by Mussolini in 1933 as a hospital for depression-sick companies, IRI provides jobs for nearly 300,000 Italians. Says IRI's genial President Giuseppe Petrilli: "IRI is the state's fundamental instrument for supporting sectors in temporary crisis...
...genial smile and beastly features of his face on the television remains a faint memory for many of us now twenty years old. For some of us it is a first recollection of political events. We remember only being told that the man who licked his lips and smiled--the man who kept repeating "point of order, Mr. Chairman,"--was the man daddy did not (or, hypothetically, did) like...