Word: cordially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worried as her tax situation. Representative Ferraro may seem as peppy and bright as before, but she has the look of someone who has been through an ordeal. Zaccaro, always a bit reticent, is more so now, his view of the press soured. Yet the Queens couple remain cordial, hospitable sand eager to tell their story...
Rumania's show of independence from Moscow was nothing new. While maintaining tight control over internal critics, President Nicolae Ceauşescu has a history of quietly differing with Moscow on foreign policy issues. He has maintained cordial ties with Peking, kept an embassy in Israel after Moscow broke relations with that country in 1967, and refused to let his troops join in the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The decision to send a team to Los Angeles had direct political benefits for Ceauşescu. Government broadcasters boasted that victorious Rumanians had "dedicated" their victories to their President...
Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin is a cordial man, admired by Washington hostesses for his charming mimicry of bourgeois social graces. So special was his position that he had been accustomed to entering the State Department by driving into the basement garage and then riding a private elevator to the seventh floor, where the Secretary's office is located...
...cordial hostility, few relationships rival the unstable truce between Washington reporters, who chafe at having news doled out by the teaspoonful, and presidential press secretaries, who often view journalists as carping nihilists incapable of admitting they are wrong...
...show exactly what the radical leftists planned. I am the student who the top-secret Grenadian report says "lives just below the Soviet embassy and seems to pay more than casual attention to all activities of the embassy." My relationship with the Soviet Ambassador and his staff was cordial though superficial. It amuses me to know that they suspected me of being a CIA agent. This accusation is just another example of Soviet paranoia...