Word: benignancy
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...mild little Manhattan junkman, fond of dogs, children and his fellow man. While the T-men break up big counterfeiting rings, he goes blandly on passing his outrageously crude singles. He prints only about 50 a month, barely enough to keep him and his dog shabbily independent. His benign (and shrewd) policy: no more than one to a customer. When the agents finally nab him, they are wholly disarmed-and frustrated all over again-by his gentle air and toothless, guiltless grin...
South Korea's leaders, harassed and driven from pillar to post, were still not talking or acting like representatives of a beaten people. Rhee sees the war as a step in reuniting Korea-under Rhee. Said the benign, white-haired President to a TIME correspondent last week: "The Kremlin leaders destroyed the 38th parallel by invasion. Now it is gone. There is no reason now why we should observe the 38th parallel and no reason why the U.S. and the U.N. should observe it ... The cold war and all that is a waste of time. Finally force...
From nearly every town in every U.S. state and from 20 foreign nations, 46,634 Boy Scouts swarmed into Pennsylvania's Valley Forge last week. They were more or less controlled by hundreds of harried Scoutmasters with benign faces and bony knees. The occasion: the second National Boy Scout Jamboree (the first: 1937), probably the biggest gathering of boys in one spot in the history of the Western Hemisphere...
Coonily resolved not to give away any verbal valuables, they discussed their experiences as reticently as poker players being questioned about a good hand. But it was soon obvious that Communist China too had been a kind of never-never land for them, a place full of benign Oriental maniacs with no respect for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps...
...benign Generalissimo also busied himself making the best possible impression on the five traveling investigators of the Inter-American Peace Commission. Largely as the result of Haitian charges that he was behind a December plot to overthrow the government of Haiti, the Organization of American States had determined to find out why there was so little peace in the turbulent Caribbean...