Word: courteousely
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...hard to believe, folks in Massachusetts' Seventh Congressional District said, that Congressman Tom Lane was really in prison. Ask for a favor at his office in Lawrence, and his staff saw to it that the request got the same prompt, courteous attention it had in the past. Let there be a funeral or a wake in the Lawrence-Lynn area, and one of his aides was sure to attend, delicately dropping the word that he was there as Lane's personal representative. Even though he was serving a four-month term for evading $38,542 in income...
...Presidential Car. Nasser himself was courteous and smiling when the committee came to his modest Nileside office -"probably the only office in Cairo," said a reporter, "without a picture of Nasser." He seated his guests-Menzies, U.S. Career Ambassador Loy Henderson, Sweden's Foreign Minister Osten Unden, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Gholi Ardalan and Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Ato Aklilu Abte Wold-in armchairs round a blond mahogany table. To make the give-and-take as easy as possible, the group agreed to do without stenographers and to keep an absolute news blackout. Then Menzies...
...please most Southern whites (few of whom buy Ebony). A colored Faulkner would advise the leaders of his race "to send every day to the white school to which he was entitled by his ability and capacity to go, a student of my race, fresh and cleanly dressed, courteous, without threat or violence, to seek admission."Among antagonistic whites, Faulkner asks himself, "Would you find it hard not to hate them?" His reply: "I would repeat to myself Booker T. Washington's words ... 'I will let no man, no matter what his color, ever make me hate...
Bushes to Bigger. By this spring, after a couple of smart trades, the Pirates were no longer a band of courteous sea scouts. Bobby Bragan had been a flamboyant manager-clown back in the Pacific Coast League, once sent out a bat boy to coach third base. But up with the Pirates, Busher Bragan went big league, soon had his kids scrapping like old pros. When Slugger Dale Long hurt his leg trying to take an extra base, Bragan was delighted. "You know how he pulled that muscle?" he demanded happily. "He got it sliding hard into third, that...
When a reporter sought comment on the Chotiner investigation (see below), the President laid down a two-prong code of ethics for the Government people under him. Every citizen must receive courteous treatment, he said, but at the same time, if anyone comes claiming privileges on the basis of a White House connection, "he is to be thrown out instantly...