Word: graciousness
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...transformation came with the slow growth of British prosperity since 1950. With their new affluence, British girls suddenly became aware that the graceful clothes that once went only with gracious living had come within their reach. With new money to spend, they flocked to Europe, saw French and Italian girls making the most of fewer assets. Today, the average English girl ranks among the best-coifed, best-dressed women on earth...
...battle five to one. He promoted Vice President Boutelle to president. In 1958, after Fairchild Engine lost its huge missile contract and went into a tailspin, Fairchild replaced him with J. M. Carmichael, former chairman of Capital Airlines. Boutelle, bearing no grudge, still speaks of Fairchild as "an extremely gracious, nice person," asked him to be best man at his second wedding...
...bitterest foe. When Gaitskell recalled some of Nye's fierce sallies, including the attack on Churchill when he cried that he welcomed the "opportunity of picking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth," Churchill gave a fleeting smile of remembrance and made a gracious bow toward the speaker...
Personally, halo-haired Linus Pauling, "59, is regarded by those who know him as a gracious gentleman. Professionally, Nobel Prizewinner Pauling, professor of chemistry at Caltech, is recognized as one of the world's most eminent scientists. Politically, Pauling's naive flirtation with the left has made him a highly controversial figure, viewed by many as a kind of kook...
...General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; of a stroke; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. Personification of the "strenuous life" advocated by her famed father-in-law, Mrs. Roosevelt was a dedicated service worker in Europe during both World Wars, a vigorous campaigner in her husband's races for public office, a gracious Governor's lady during his terms in Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and in her 1959 memoirs, Day Before Yesterday, an able chronicler of their life together...