Word: cordiality
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...visitations by white missionaries who sign up for temporary duty only, and who may be more interested in salving their own consciences than in solving a problem that cannot be cured by a coat of paint. The reception given New York's beautifying task force was generally cordial, but there were a few notable exceptions. "Why clean outside?" asked one resident. "All the badness is inside, and that will still be there tomorrow...
...faster. His company is ready to turn out a computer that uses either keyboard, punch cards or tape, as the customer demands; it adds whatever memory capacity is required to do what the purchaser wants. Prices, depending on sophistication, range from $5,000 to $80,000. Nixdorf remains cordial with the big boys by buying printers from IBM and making a data-logging small computer for Siemens...
Military exhibits were quite in order at the NRA convention, for the organization has had cordial relations with the armed forces ever since it was founded in 1871 by a group of National Guard officers to foster civilian marksmanship as an aid to military preparedness. Usually at least one retired or active duty Army officer sits on the NRA's board of directors...
...Cordial Confrontation. He avoided partisan politics, despite rising pressures to endorse Hubert Humphrey. Said Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield after a breakfast meeting: "I think he will keep hands off and let the Democratic Convention decide...
...since the bitter 45-minute confrontation in the White House 14 months ago, when the President angrily lashed out at Bobby for having fostered rumors that he had received a Viet Nam peace feeler during a European visit. Now, in an hour-long meeting described by both sides as "cordial," Johnson briefed Kennedy on the crises confronting the nation and told him, in effect: "If you want to assume this burden and if the people want you to, why should I stand...