Word: genial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the Detroit Tigers, picked to roam in the American League's first division, turned out to be a bunch of second-division tabby cats, General Manager Jack McHale did the obvious thing: he fired Jack Tighe, his genial field manager ("Jack tried to be all things to all men"), replaced him with an unknown named Henry Willis Patrick ("Bill") Norman, manager of Detroit's Charleston (W. Va.) farm club, who will be expected to twist the Tigers' tail. The Tigers responded by taking six of the next seven games, including four from the New York Yankees...
...Republican bosses studiously ignored his early race for Governor. "I haven't carried enough water to the Elephant," he acknowledged after a glance over the shoulder toward plodding Lieut. Governor W. H. Nicholas, who at 65 has spent more than a generation tending every breed of party animal. Genial Billy Murray, a Presbyterian six-footer with a scoutmaster's look of integrity and energy, made up for lost time by running a handshaking "survey" of voters in all 99 counties, asking the old pros of all factions for the advice they love to give. Some of them fell...
...West Germany's President Theodor Heuss went about Washington on a genial state visit, the West German government last week informed the U.S. that it is no longer prepared to pay any costs of supporting U.S. troops in Germany. Bonn's note, described as "blunt," was not made public. Reportedly, the Germans explained that their recent $100 million troop-cost settlement with Britain (TIME, April 28) was simply an act of mutual aid to a NATO ally in economic difficulties and hence could not be regarded as a precedent for further payments to the U.S. The theory...
Paradoxically, the chilling anger of The Visit springs from the fertile, unangry mind of a bulky (230 Ibs.), cigar-smoking Swiss burgher with the tastes of a bon vivant, the genial manner of a retired cook. Surrounded by his wife Lotti (once an actress), three children, four dogs and seven cats, 37-year-old Friedrich Düurren-matt churns out his bitter plays from a picture-postcard villa in the green woods overlooking Lake Neuchatel...
Both Whitehead and his opponent of the white-supremacy Dominion Party-Jack Pain, a bluff and genial Bulawayo accountant and city council member-left no doubt that they wanted to maintain the white man's unfettered rule over the blacks, who outnumbered them 13 to 1 in Southern Rhodesia. But White Supremacist Pain argued in the campaign that the United Federal Party, even with Todd gone, was pushing partnership "too far and too fast." Betting odds favored Whitehead 4 to 1, but when the votes of Hillside were tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead...