Word: avuncular
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Charles Kuralt, 46, CBS Morning host, refuting constant descriptions of himself as "avuncular": "I'm fat and bald, but I don't think of myself as avuncular. It's too bad. I'd rather look like Rather. Of course, wouldn't anybody...
...hallmark of Ronald Reagan and his California insiders. Says one senior Administration official who has worked with both the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense: "Haig worries about authority, while Weinberger assumes it. Haig is tense by nature, where as Weinberger is relaxed." As a result, the avuncular Weinberger has so far managed to avoid the four-star controversy that has surrounded his take-charge colleague at State...
Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Address was the loudest statement yet by the aggrieved. The No. 1 victim stood before the nation proclaiming avuncular outrage over the federal family he had just inherited. Government is the problem...
...crowd erupted with cheers of "Reagan!" The candidate cocked his head, grinned and said: "My mother always told me that I should never say that. But this is the last night of a long campaign, and I thought just once I could say it." It was Reagan at his avuncular best...
DIED. Milburn Stone, 75, veteran character actor who as the vinegary yet avuncular Doc Adams in TV's popular Gunsmoke series played friend and foil to James Arness's Matt Dillon and Amanda Blake's Miss Kitty throughout the show's 20-year (1955-75) run; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. Stone became so strongly identified with the role, for which he won an Emmy, that he once quipped, "To everyone except my family I'm Doc. Getting so I have to restrain myself from making house calls...