Word: courteous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roosevelt, with the shrewd instinct of a rampant heterosexual, kick James again and again in his 'obscure hurt,' until the novelist was moved to weary protest. 'The national consciousness for Mr. Theodore Roosevelt is ... at the best a very fierce affair.' James was too courteous to say more in print, but he privately characterized Roosevelt as 'a dangerous and ominous jingo,' and 'the mere monstrous embodiment of unprecedented and resounding Noise...
Despite the tension at the beginning, both sides characterized the five hours of private talks as friendly, courteous and businesslike. The first bilateral session was held in the Spanish colonial Palacio Nacional, but it was just general and polite. The two Presidents got down to specifics the next day at Los Pinos, Lopez Portillo's official residence. Carter said he was ready to reopen negotiations over natural gas purchases in formal government-to-government bargaining sessions. Said LÓpez Portillo: "Let's get on with it." As for buying more oil from Mexico, Carter did not press...
Burns has found all the Presidents to be courteous. Truman asked for an aide once but instructed Burns not to summon him to the phone if the fellow and his wife were having dinner. The morning that Tricia Nixon was to get married, the rain started and stopped several times, and plans for the Rose Garden ceremony teetered back and forth. Finally, Nixon called and politely asked, Operator, do you know if this wedding is going on today...
...advice, and Amin admitted that he has canvassed all non-Communist ambassadors for "cash commitments" ?which some see as blank checks from Washington. He seeks more aid along with "sincerity, honesty and friendship of the people of the U.S., whom we highly respect." The Foreign Minister is a courteous man with the round, deliberately ingenuous face of the traditional Afghan rug dealer. But the consensus among Kabul's diplomatic community is that he is naively depending on the guile he used in the past to outmaneuver his opponents in the Afghan political bazaar...
...Willie is a roughneck with a poet's soul. When his dander isn't up he is courteous and softspoken, with some of the grave self-possession of the country man. His favorite reading is Kahlil Gibran and Edgar Cayce. Sitting around hotel rooms, he muses often on the theory of reincarnation and on karma as a sort of Newton's Third Law of the spirit ("Whatever goes around, comes around"). Willie is "irresistible to women," says a female member of his entourage, "because he's so sensitive along with being so masculine-like Shane." Willie...