Word: avuncular
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...before the next mandatory elections in 1979. Some also thought that Wilson might have reckoned that his departure at a time of high tension between moderates and leftists in the party could enhance the chances of his being followed as prime minister by Foreign Minister James Callaghan, a skillful, avuncular politician who enjoys wide popularity...
FRANCISCO DA COSTA GOMES, President, is known in Lisbon political circles as "the cork"; that is because he always manages to bob to the surface after every storm. Conciliatory and pragmatic, always searching for ways to avoid conflict, Costa Gomes, 61, is the kind of avuncular friend that others turn to in moments of crisis. Thus, although he did not take an active role in the April 1974 revolution, he was the first choice of the captains and majors who led the armed forces to head the Junta of National Salvation. After the coup succeeded, he was appointed chief...
...Here they are, the first pictures of our cosmonauts!" With that exuberant introduction, Veteran Soviet Anchor Man Yuri Fokin, 50, Moscow's properly graying, avuncular counterpart of U.S. television's Walter Cronkite, began his commentary on the first live broadcast from the orbiting Soyuz. Fokin's enthusiasm was typical: no event in recent years had been so ballyhooed by the Kremlin as the Apollo-Soyuz linkup...
...Houston), Housing and Luxury. Sex is a sorry, mechanical business. The women of the future look like frostbitten fashion models. This may be because they are androids, vessels of mechanical pleasure. If the women are jokes, the men all look either like jocks or mush-faced stereotypes of menacingly avuncular corporate execs...
...went to China. After Chiang Kai-shek turned on the Communists and drove them underground in 1927, Ho spent the next 13 years shuttling between Moscow and China-with stopovers in Chiang's prisons. Behind bars, Ho honed his talent for writing poetry and began developing an avuncular manner that carefully masked his guile and ruthlessness. On occasion he would betray rival nationalist leaders to the French police and then donate the reward to the party...