Word: cordiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small stockholder, let me extend them a most cordial welcome...
...Riyadh, where the Secretary was greeted by skirling bagpipers of the Royal Guard. Although their subsequent conversation was amiable, Crown Prince Fahd inexplicably kept Brown cooling his heels for two hours before a scheduled meeting. Talks with his Saudi counterpart, Minister of Defense and Aviation Prince Sultan, were also cordial. The American visitors were surprised, however, that the prince did not ask for specifics when Brown proposed a heightened U.S. military presence in the region. The Secretary had carefully set the groundwork for a discussion of that subject by outlining his−and the Administration's−three-point...
...countryside, finding the various unadorned sites of Jimmy's life and early work. A polite visitor with an anxiety-dispelling Southern accent could even find and talk at relaxed length with members of the presidential family. In a three-day visit-during Christmas rush at that-I had cordial and substantial meetings with Alton Carter (Jimmy's uncle and keeper of the family tales, possessed of an excellent narrative tongue and the sweet will to use it); Gloria Carter Spann (Jimmy's nearest sister, wife to a Plains farmer and the most retiring and impressive...
...meeting was brief and cordial, and McGraw did not then answer. The next morning he said he was "negative" and asked stockholders to do nothing until the board meets this week to study the offer. The Amexco bid comes to $34 a McGraw-Hill share, a fat premium over the $26 market price just before the bid. But Harold McGraw, grandson of the company's founder and a man set in his ways, wants to keep the family in command...
...none of these matters were expected to cause serious trouble in the pre-Christmas talks. The mood around the conference table was cordial, even inviting some light bantering. Gromyko jokingly asked his counterpart: "Do you have your chief of staff with you?" The Russian was referring to Vance's wife Grace. The Secretary of State replied, smiling: "I have my chief of staff. She keeps me in line...