Word: cordiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life in the South was hard and the treatment he received at the University of Mississippi, where he was the first known Negro student, was something less than cordial. So it seems strange that James Meredith should want to go back. But after spending six troubled years in New York City, where he lost $20,000 as a landlord, and was sentenced to two days in jail for harassing his tenants, Meredith has abandoned the North to return to Jackson, Miss., where he will campaign to obtain more economic power for blacks. "The South," Meredith announced, "is a more livable...
...scene in the cavernous committee room was deceptively calm. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was smiling and attentive. The chief witness, Treasury Secretary John Connally, was relaxed and cordial. There was little outward sign that these two wily, vastly experienced politicians were meeting in a head-on clash over the Nixon Administration's top-priority bill, the measure that proposes to share an initial $5 billion a year in federal revenues with the states and cities...
...principal patrons, even though he realizes that Washington can more easily arrange peace with Israel than can Moscow. Nor does he want to antagonize the Soviets at a critical moment with an unseemly show of independence. Thus, Egypt's President went out of his way to be cordial last week, even to the point of making some sharp anti-American remarks. "The U.S., with its military and material support of Israel," he said, "has actually thwarted peace endeavors, enabling aggression to gain ground...
...South Vietnamese and American delegations, however, were "not terribly cordial," he said...
WEST EUROPE. Brezhnev reiterated the Soviet desire for a relaxation of tensions on the Continent-on Moscow's terms. He praised the cordial state of Franco-Soviet relations. But he warned that West Germany's failure so far to ratify the Bonn-Moscow renunciation-of-force treaty "would produce a fresh crisis of confidence over the Federal Republic's policies and would worsen the political climate in Europe...