Word: cordiale
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...seem to matter to the scores of other Iraqis we encountered: shopkeepers, hoteliers and even the government functionaries minding our comings and goings in Baghdad. The doctors tending the dying, the security people searching our baggage, the smiling three-year-old son of a government official -- all were strikingly cordial...
...described the meeting as "very cordial...
...invasion was a particularly unhappy event in Mexico, where President Carlos Salinas de Gortari had cemented a cordial relationship with Washington, based in part on U.S. promises to respect Latin American sovereignty. Now the byword in Mexico City is restraint. A spokesman for Salinas said last week ties remain "mature, stable and good" and the two countries had "agreed to disagree" on Panama...
Even Harvard is not immune to such occurrences, as I learned first hand from an episode almost two years ago when I was a first-year student. It came unexpectedly from a white student who, under normal circumstances, was cordial to me. But during one evening of heavy drinking, he came at me, unprovoked, hurling out that much abhorred racial epithet that is a corruption of the word "Negro...
Wander into the Reeves private hotel, a tidy Victorian row house overlooking Shepherd's Bush Green, and you can easily imagine yourself in any of central * London's small, discreet hotels. The woman at the front desk will offer a cordial greeting as you check in, tell you about the facilities and invite you to have tea or a drink at the bar. Unless, of course, you are a man. In that case, you will be urged, very graciously, to leave...