Word: courteously
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...years the firm was my family: they were my big brothers and I was their little sister. It was strange; during the week, they were courteous, gentle men, but on the weekend they became incredibly violent. It was quite schizophrenic...
...conscience pinches me again at Fenway. Last time, I made the decision to wear a t-shirt emblazoned with the Yankee logo underneath my collared shirt. A silent, semi-courteous protest...
Even in his playing years Cobb assumed a mythic stature. The garrulous Casey Stengel summed up his contemporary in a lone sentence: "It was like he was superhuman." Others would say subhuman. On his most courteous afternoons, Cobb slid in, spikes high and sharpened to maim. He wrangled with teammates, two wives, five children and innumerable ticket holders. When a New York fan taunted him, Cobb climbed into the stands and stomped the offender. It was later pointed out that the stompee had been missing all of one hand and three fingers of the other. Cobb replied tenderly...
...incredible opportunity to hear the world’s policy-makers in person and then question them on their positions. Few colleges give their students this kind of access to politicians, and Harvard students should be mindful of the fact that they have this privilege. Audience members must be courteous to speakers and allow them to talk without interjections. This, of course, does not mean that when given the chance to grill speakers, students should be deferential. They should pose difficult questions, but they should do so in a way that is both strong and respectful...
...agenda that was subtle but significant. He effected the final merger of Harvard and Radcliffe, a delicate and thankless task. He oversaw Harvard’s secret purchases of Allston land and took upon himself the prickly job of making those purchases public. He was an adamant, if courteous, supporter of affirmative-action, and his interest in the vital problem of race in America inspired him to build the nation’s finest department of Afro-American studies. And he was, by all accounts, passionately devoted to maintaining the high quality of the Harvard professoriat...