Word: benignancy
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...published stories, though, came up to the statement composed by the self-styled "old cracked-up Irish ruin" himself before he went under the knife. "Mentally, I'm a mess. You've heard of mixed emotions? Man, this is rough . . . If it's a benign tumor of some sort, hurray for our side-no more sweat. If the damn thing is malignant, cancerous, then there's real trouble . . . Never felt better in my life. Then, boom: this horrible, skulking 'thing' visible only as a ghostly shadow on an X-ray negative. This 'thing...
Less obvious but more pervasive was the university's effect upon the state's business community, dominated by Chapel Hill alumni. Under the watchful eye of a benign oligarchy (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Duke Power Co. and the "textile aristocracy"), North Carolina has been developed with uncommon imagination. Business leaders have endowed well-paid professorial chairs, set up string-free foundations, protected professors back at the alma mater from the political censorship common to state-supported Southern schools...
...looming as the crucial year. Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, a onetime locomotive driver, wants to be on the road toward independence within the British Commonwealth by then. Banda's greatest fear is to see Nyasaland dominated by apartheid-minded whites unrestrained by the more benign rule of the Colonial Office in London. Eventually, he hopes it will be linked to Tanganyika, parts of Northern Rhodesia, and possibly Uganda and Belgium's U.N. trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi...
Medical men have been aware for half a century that X rays can be destructive to human tissue. Overdosage of X rays for benign purposes can have malignant consequences. Example: careless treatment may cure acne, but cause skin cancer. Despite this established knowledge, X rays are still being incautiously used as cure-alls...
...problem of determining whether one is part of that 37 per cent, and if so when the axe is liable to fall or whether it wouldn't be a better idea to volunteer and end the suspense, gives countless students insomnia and nervous jitters. If, however, the benign American military were interested in the mental stability of its potential servitors, it could either declare for a policy of Universal Military Training or for the establishment of a professionally attractive standing army. Neither thought seems to have much appeal for the Pentagon, possibly because the Joint Chiefs of Staff are less...