Word: avuncular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anderson, an avuncular man who is active in Texas Republican politics, is worried because he has been hit by what he calls "two whammies." A few years ago, his land was worth $1,400 an acre. Now he figures it runs at best $1,000 an acre. Where he once could get 14 cents for a pound of rice, he now can expect only 8 cents. Each acre, in short, brought $700 when he harvested 5,000 lbs. of rice on it in the mid-'70s; now it brings him just...
...SOLACE of a second debate: President Reagan now knows that his four-year string of verbal inanities isn't going to deflate his cozy 15-point advantage. This battle really is over. Hail to our doting, yet avuncular Chief...
...partial lifting of censorship and more opposition-party participation in government. The results of the conventions, however, could signal not only the end of military control but the beginning of rule by an opposition party. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party chose as its candidate Tancredo Neves, 74, a moderate, avuncular lawyer and governor of Minas Gerais state. Political analysts say he has a good chance of winning...
...message is that America is for everyone who works hard and contributes to our blessed country. That's what my choice is about, and that's what Gerry's about." During pauses to let the cheers roll, Mondale could be heard over open mics making some avuncular, old-pro remarks to Ferraro, standing beside him in a bright red dress and simple string of pearls. "What did I tell you about Minnesota?" he asked the New Yorker during a standing ovation. A bit later: "You'll have to get used to this. At the convention, you'll have to smile...
Reagan started with a classic Reagan line: "A lot of problems disappear when we talk to each other," he said, "rather than about each other." Then he turned even sweeter, more avuncular. "One had only to look at the beautiful children we saw outside," Reagan told Li, "to know that our job as leaders is to deliver a better world to them than the one we found. That is what we are all here for." Replied Li, who is 78: "You said it very well. It is for the older generation to work for a better world...