Word: cordially
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...three students were dumbfounded. Inside, the house was bedlam. Assorted children were attempting to catch several stray dogs apparently intent upon the family's female beagle. A second glance however, was enough to reassure the tutees. Unruffled and majestic in the doorway stood Myron Piper Gilmore. Bidding them a cordial welcome, he laughed the slightly apologetic laugh of a man who, though not immune to crisis, can almost always rise above it. Perhaps for this very ability, he is now a full professor and Chairman of the History Department...
...Yugoslavs took pains to inform the U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Office that the visit would not affect Yugoslavia's "cordial and good relations with the West." But all in all, it was quite a coup for Communism's No. i renegade: never before had Headman Khrushchev traveled beyond the border of Kremlin-styled Communism. Tito was probably too cagey to put his head all the way into the bear's mouth. But at the very least, he seemed to be very busy at the old Balkan game of playing off major powers, in hope...
...often despaired of during almost nine years of negotiations and Soviet stalling, the final text of the treaty was hammered out in nine days' bargaining between the ambassadors to Vienna of the Big Four occupying powers. The ambassadors' conference, conducted in strictest secrecy, was probably the most cordial and fruitful session that Western negotiators have had with the Communists since World...
...topflight U.S. military analyst, the New York Times's Hanson W. Baldwin usually gets a cordial welcome at the Pentagon. But last week he got a rude surprise. When he tried to make appointments for talks with General Matthew Ridgway, Admiral Robert B. Carney, Lieut. General James Gavin and other high brass, he was turned down cold. Other Pentagon newsmen had similar experiences. An Army, Navy, Air Force Journal staffer asked for obituary material on a Marine brigadier general, did not get it until the handout was marked "reviewed and cleared" by a Navy captain...
...Stalin's night to play host at dinner, "The atmosphere," says the record, "was most cordial and 45 toasts in all were drunk." Under sparkling chandeliers at Yusupovsky Palace sat the men casually engaged in reshaping the globe...