Word: geniality
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...tour guide was Rear Admiral William Lukash, the President's genial doctor. His seven-page report covering Ford's annual physical was given out in all its glorious detail. Dr. Lukash had opposed release; Ford ordered it done. As a matter of fact, after one gets through Ford's postnasal drip and a severe cramp in his left calf, the report turns out to be one of the best documents recently issued from the White House. Ford is in bully health...
Carter kept genial control over Prosecutor Browning and Defender Bailey as they began their long-awaited duel. Browning, 43, had not tried a case in more than five years, preferring, as an administrator, to leave the courtroom work to his assistants. He professed to be unimpressed by the fact that he was facing one of the most famous and flamboyant criminal lawyers. "I've been up against good lawyers before," he said, "but unless you have the facts on your side, it doesn't mean much...
...description of the current national state of affairs, while Harvard's program claims as alumni a variety of historical figures ranging from Moses to Shakespeare, in a routine perceived more as humorous jest than pretension, at least by those from Harvard and Yale. Still, both bands find opportunities for genial sparring. Yale's marchers form a huge drum and carry a fifteen-foot-long drumstick across the field while bemoaning the pitiful size of much of Harvard's equipment. And the Harvard band takes advantage of twentieth century technology by flying a plane over the stadium with a banner reading...
...person who is concerned about the center's finances is Toumanoff, an owlish, genial and relaxed man who occupies an office set far back from the scholars' corridor that Ulam and Doctorow inhabit. On Toumanoff's desk and shelves there are no dusty volumes, but a clipped article from the New York Times Week in Review section called "Can the World Organize to Save Itself?" (on food and resources), the latest Club of Rome report on dwindling world resources, and a two volume policy-oriented study entitled Rapid Population Growth...
...even doornails must know by now, the murderer in Ackroyd is the narrator, a genial village doctor. No one had ever pulled that trick, and there are purists who still argue that the author cheated. But if the device came as a revelation, the source should not have. Six years earlier, Christie had broken ground modestly in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles; the villain was the first and most obvious suspect, from whom attention had long since been diverted...