Word: cordially
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Short obediently resolved to get along. His and Kimmel's relations were cordial-despite a subsequent Collier's article by President (then Senator) Harry Truman, which represented the two as scarcely speaking...
...commander of U.S. forces in China, and round-faced General Chou Enlai, China's No. 2 Communist. Chiang and Mao toasted each other in yellow wine. The Communist leader quaffed his cup; the Generalissimo (a teetotaler) barely wet his lips. Said Chiang: "I hope we can have the cordial atmosphere...
This time Charles de Gaulle was smiling, cordial, no longer unbending. His mission was obvious: to regain U.S. affection for France. He stepped out of the big, silvery Avro York plane jauntily, moved rapidly through the line of stiff-standing French officers to greet Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes. Then he walked to a microphone. The General's English was slow, but he had brushed up his vocabulary...
Relations between Russia's Colonel General Alexander V. Gorbatov and U.S. Major General Floyd L. Parks are, in General Parks's words, "more than cordial-we've become real friends." Gorbatov was inclined to be a little stiff at first. Parks, a Southerner, soon charmed him. Gorbatov took the first drink of his life at the first meeting of the Kommandantur. Parks explained that he, too, was a nondrinker, that his doctor allowed him only a little white wine. A few hours later a Russian soldier appeared at Parks's house with a case of Rhine...
...scrupulous fairness, and for never asking anyone to do anything that he wouldn't do himself. Once, when he was general superintendent, he ran a rotary snowplow for 120 hours, opened the main line for traffic. The railroad brotherhoods, with whom U.P.'s relations are so cordial that there has been no labor trouble since 1903, regard Jeffers as a hard, fair bargainer...