Word: avuncular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wagging an avuncular finger, Jacobsson said that with the fall of exports and loss of gold, the businessmen of the U.S. might well take stock of their competitive position, read a "warning about the trend of costs and prices...
...going to do this scene"). A mild man, Wilder survived by treating Monroe like a fine Swiss watch: "Only it doesn't start ticking when you just wind. You have to shake it a little-not just any old way-but just so." ¶ Producer Darryl Zanuck, fervent avuncular friend of Left Bank Singer Juliette ("the wild one") Greco, rode into battle for his protégée. Through a London gossip column, U.S. Moviemaker Carl Foreman irritably reported that Zanuck was over-pushing Greco for a fat part in Foreman's new picture, Guns of Navarone...
...From avuncular World Bank President Eugene Black of the U.S. came a final reminder to the have-nots of the world that they could expect little sympathy-or help-if they failed to perform the unpleasant and unpopular duty of putting their own financial houses in order, or if they tried an "appeal to sentiment or exploitation of a strategic position in the international political lineup." But Black urged action by the haves on the "imaginative and constructive" U.S. proposal for Ida. "There is a real need," said Black-and the delegates had to look no farther than the side...
...present ruling house, who was the great-great-grandfather of both Elizabeth and Philip. Victoria, eager for the whole world to adore her husband as she did, was all for having the people crown Albert King right at the start. "For God's sake, Ma'am," her avuncular Prime Minister Lord Melbourne cried out at the idea, "if you get the English people into the way of making Kings, you will get them into the way of unmaking them...
Help for Helpmeets. Under Bishop Hubble's avuncular eye, readers' outpourings are efficiently dissected by a 48-man journalistic rescue squad which includes a full-time lawyer, four experts who handle nothing but housing questions, four others who deal only in installment-buying problems, two marital-relations counselors, a specialist in servicemen's affairs. On call are two Harley Street physicians who are retained to advise readers with medical ills to see their doctors...