Word: genially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three days and three nights of see-saw competition between the previously unbeaten Harvard aquamen and their none-too-genial host, Princeton, the Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Championship hinged on one race, the concluding 400-yd. freestyle relay...
...almost all of them were also aware that Kissinger, while uttering technical truths, knew there was much more to the story. It was a genial bit of public fakery but mutual nondeception...
...seems, are bedeviled by false images in Gotham. According to Father George Thompson, vocations director of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, many New Yorkers see their priests in the Father O'Malley image made popular by Bing Crosby in Going My Way three decades ago-a genial sort of fellow who solves parish problems so deftly that he has plenty of time to write and croon catchy tunes. Others, whether Catholic themselves or not, view priests as troubled souls who may soon debark from the ministry to marry, or simply as the impresarios of weekly bingo games...
...Egypt it will be Sadat's principal press adviser, Ashraf Ghorbal, 48, a tough-minded but genial expert on diplomacy who holds a doctorate in political science from Harvard (where he did his thesis on a favorite Kissinger subject, regional security arrangements) and who has served in Washington before. During the recent fighting, Egypt's propaganda was more realistic than it has ever been in 25 years of unrest and conflict. The generally factual reporting was due largely to Ghorbal's insistence...
Extra Kilometers. Meanwhile, Sadat appeared in Cairo in field marshal's uniform to hold a press conference for 350 Egyptian and foreign correspondents gathered to report the war. In a remarkably relaxed and genial mood,* he gave one reason why he accepted the ceasefire: "I would not fight the United States of America. I fought Israel for eleven days. They would have run out of ammunition in two [more] days. I am not ready to fight the U.S." Although he criticized Washington for giving aid to Israel, Sadat praised the U.S. for taking a "constructive position" on peace negotiations...