Word: cordiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With 100 little winks, grimaces and ha-has, Slocum describes (and mercilessly redescribes) himself and his life in a flat pattern of total recall. He is a reasonably handsome man in his 40s -wavy hair that is thinning, a paunch that is growing. In the office he is "cordial and considerate to just about everybody." He has "this wretched habit" of acquiring the characteristics of the last person he has been talking to-a stutter, a tic, even a limp...
Even before détente, Russian and American scientists were trading views, visits and even data. But the cordial atmosphere is occasionally clouded by acrimony. Last week, for the third time in a decade, the scientific cold war between the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Soviet Union's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, near Moscow, erupted anew. As before, the argument was over who had been first to manufacture the latest manmade* element...
...Grendel's atmosphere is its simplicity. It doesn't have the European landscape posters that other easteries find so necessary to their identities. Grendel's exudes a European ambience without even trying. The music is light and tends toward the classical, and the waiters and waitresses are generally cordial...
...week had begun promisingly. Intermediate talks between representatives of Lisbon and liberation leaders from Portuguese Guinea had ended on a cordial note in London. During initial peace contacts in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, Foreign Minister Mario Scares (see box) had emotionally embraced Samora Machel, president of Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Front. Meanwhile, Tanzania, Zaire and several other African states that have long aided anti-Portuguese guerrillas were quietly helping Lisbon toward a solution...
...Elysée. It will contrast sharply with the Olympian manner patented by De Gaulle and copied, with minor modifications, by Georges Pompidou right up through the fatal end of his never-acknowledged struggle with cancer eight weeks ago. On election night, Giscard not only pointedly offered "a very cordial salute" to Mitterrand but did so in English as well as French-a cultural heresy that raised eyebrows even on the political left. Said former Premier Pierre Mendes-France, a Mitterrand supporter: "Yes, I can see it now. France will become the 51st state before Puerto Rico...