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When he meets adults he stares at them and takes them in, then kindly smiles and gurgles and lets them pat him, ruffle his hair, and take his face in their hands.

But there several other examples of Fifa looking kindly upon players, reducing their ban from the mandatory punishment.

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But baseball has always been different, fostering a deep-rooted culture in MLB that doesn’t take kindly to outsiders.

The character operates at a remove from even those closest to him — he has a kindly spirit, but he can’t quite connect.

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“Now, the witch doesn’t take kindly to this perspective. Personally, I don’t blame her. It’s reductionist, it’s elitist, and it’s just plain icky. So the witch goes from zero to a hundred—and curses Benefo.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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