Word: geniality
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...genial, 245-lb. defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions, Alex Karras, 27, was worried about those rumors that pro football players had been "shaving points" and associating with hoodlums. Alex decided to clear the air, and, fortified with indiscretion, taped a TV interview for NBC. He was sure that no pro football player would ever try to fix a game. But, personally, he enjoyed a little wager now and then. Doesn't everybody? Then N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle pointed out that all player contracts specifically forbid betting on league games. Facing a possible suspension, Karras sobbed that...
...collars. (Mills's mother, 77, still helps run the store.) Later on, Ardra Mills acquired a cotton gin and an interest in the local bank. Wilbur worked in the store during his boyhood, but early in life he was struck with awed admiration of William A. Oldfield, the bouncy, genial Congressman from the district. In his travels around his constituency, Oldfield frequently visited Kensett and stopped at the Mills store. "I was talking about running for Congress by the time I was ten," Mills recently recalled. Oldfield was a member of Ways and Means?so young Mills decided that...
...hall atop the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses. Communist bigwigs mingled with diplomats, military leaders and stars of the Soviet cultural elite. Everyone was in high spirits, including Soviet ex-President Kliment Voroshilov, 82, who broke into an impromptu jig when the band played a snappy Russian melody. Genial Host Nikita Khrushchev roared his hearty approval...
Dwight Macdonald is a genial tilter at windmills, and in his time he has bowled over more than his share. If occasionally a blade clouts him on the back of the noggin, he is undeterred. He barrels on, filling the conversational air with friendly bellowings and snorts even when he has not formed words ready to his tongue. He can keep an interrupter at bay just by an elongated stammer, disarm the most savage attacker with a high, snuffling whinny, and it sometimes takes the cold light of morning to tell where he went wrong. But he remains...
Before taking the thankless job of running Britain's rattling railways, genial but tough Richard Beeching raised a public storm last year by insisting that the government match the salary that he got as technical director of Imperial Chemical Industries: $67,000. That was 2½ times what his predecessor got and much higher than the Prime Minister's pay ($28,000), but Beeching's principles opposed a comedown. Beeching, now 49, may be worth much more than that to the railways, which ran a crashing $252 million in the red last year...