Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bids & Fees. The suit only added to the troubles of genial, rosy-cheeked Matt McCloskey. Only a week earlier, secret testimony released by a Senate investigating committee linked him with Bobby Baker's financial manipulations. According to Maryland Insurance Agent Don Reynolds, McCloskey attended a meeting in Baker's Capitol office in 1960 to discuss his chances of winning the contract for a $20 million District of Columbia municipal stadium. McCloskey, who had sewed up several choice Government construction contracts in past years,* got the bid. Reynolds received about $10,000 for writing the performance bond...
That criticism is all too valid. From Teddy Roosevelt's big-stick diplomacy to Franklin Roosevelt's genial Good Neighbor policy to John Kennedy's ambitious but disappointing Alianza para el Progreso, the U.S. has long tended to treat Latin America like an entity. In fact, the area never has been and never will be a package deal...
Trills & Cackles. Dr. Baeumer's chick-talk tapes, which are considered classics in animal-behavior circles, have been played at universities in many countries and broadcast over BBC. The genial doctor himself has mastered nearly all the nuances of chicken language and can play a weighty role in any chicken society. He knows the loneliness cries of young chicks separated from their mother ("Pieep-pieep-pieep") and their terror trills-a high-pitched "Trr-trr." Both hens and roosters make "frightened" cackles when first they sense danger. After the danger passes, their cackling is full-throated and rhythmical...
...Genial Shad Tubman rules Liberia through his True Whig Party and by the judicious use of jobs and "dash"-the local word for payoffs for favors-to keep the important 20,000 Americo-Liberians happy. He has also originated a unification policy intended to pass out political and economic plums to the hinterland tribes and was the first Liberian President to give them representation in the legislature. Half of the U.S. development grants of $8,600,000 a year is earmarked for teacher training and the construction of schools. Tubman quite frankly caters to the Liberian love of status...
...Here comes the bride," sang the host, a tall, genial man standing in the cabin with a highball in his hand, the very picture of relaxation. And when Lady Bird appeared, smiling tolerantly, he planted a resounding husband's kiss on her cheek. Later, he resumed his attentions to his guests-among them, two of the some dozen slightly incredulous members of the Washington press corps. They were all down on the L.B.J. ranch in Texas by invitation of the President, and it was a weekend none of them is likely to forget...