Word: cordiale
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...this point of my stay, I have scarcely seen half of the buildings; but I know the colossal libraries alone lure one into a thousand intellectual vistas, and then tease him into endless ventures of the mind. And finally, the cool, green, quiet campus completes the University's cordial invitation to study in this academic Paradise...
Getting a cordial welcome and favorable response from Nehru, Black flew on to Karachi to test President Mohammed Ayub Khan and to exploit the feeling in both lands that this might be the last chance for a peace. Last week, boarding his plane for the U.S., Black said cheerfully: "We have reached agreement on certain principles, which we hope will lead to a final settlement." Reserved though the statement was, it is the best news on the Indus waters that anyone has reported since the bloody days of partition...
Despite its generally cordial atmosphere, the dinner witnessed one clash of opinion when first speaker Lt. Governor Robert F. Murphy, a recent critic of Governor Foster Furcolo's proposed sales tax, launched another attack on the Governor...
...talks were described as "cordial and frank," which is the diplomatic way of saying that neither side changed its position. For all his courtesy, Debré emphasized that the French are not so keen as the British to make concessions to the Russians, and are determined to avoid any appearance of dealing with Khrushchev behind the back of the West German government...
...Konrad Adenauer fortnight ago (TIME, April 20), Britain was increasingly aware that it stood in danger of becoming odd man out in Western Europe. "It can safely be said," declared a French TV commentator on the eve of Debré's visit to London, "that the Entente Cordiale is dead." Actually, the half-century-old "understanding" between France and Britain was hardly dead, but it was no longer so cordial...