Word: genial
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Clocks" is a dark and Quatous fairy story, for all its humor. Genial King Clode is now the Duke (no first name given) who is always cold and has one log longer than the other "because when he was young, he had spent his mornings place-kicking pups and punting kittons." The delightful bumbling Royal rotinue is now a shadowy band of spies called Whisper, and Hark, and Liston...
...years, N.Y.U. grew accustomed to the chancellor's behind-the-scenes efficiency. He was a stately man of genial humor who played a "terrible" game of golf (average score: "above 100") and fished with a notable lack of success ("I sometimes think that fishes are easier to buy"). But he was a whiz when it came to streamlining his $18 million budget system, placing N.Y.U:'s seven libraries under unified control, or bringing order into the once chaotic graduate schools. Under him the $32 million N.Y.U.-Bellevue Hospital Medical Center and the new $3,000,000 Law Center...
...through a gradual revolution which moved Sweden far down the socialistic Middle Way, adjusted with grace and dignity to being a king in an egalitarian democracy. Considered aloof while Crown Prince, he eventually acquired the common touch, became one of the most popular sovereigns in history. But through his genial manner glinted a regal metal that reminded his subjects who was king. Lifelong outdoor man, ardent hunter, he popularized tennis in Sweden as a young man, played it until he was 88. Last January he was unable for the first time in 42 years to deliver his annual address...
...Genial old Alben Barkley packed up a stock of his best political pleasantries and was off last week by chartered airliner, explaining everything to the voters. From Oshkosh, Wis., through the farm belt and up along the Pacific Coast, the 72-year-old campaigner hustled from airport to auditorium, from speech to banquet to rally, always leaving them laughing...
...first love is G-3 [operations]. That's what the Army is all about." Almond was soon promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1949 he moved up to Chief of Staff. Subordinates noted that the promotion had its effect on Almond's temper. The genial deputy chief became a hardboiled, hard-driving chief...