Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week of April, during one phone conversation with a White House aide, Schmidt was asked to "please make that official," and he did. And three days later came the reply, a "very polite and courteous"--but definite--no. "To this day I am still uncertain whether President Reagan himself was aware of the situation or had any interest in coming to Harvard at this time," Allison says...
...press has noticed that White House secretaries are pleasant when they answer the phones. That may change, but for now it is a novelty. Secret Service agents have been seen smiling. Their kind of man, both politically and personally, is back. Reagan is just plain courteous to almost everyone. "Too nice sometimes," snapped an aide. One morning the President told his staff firmly that he was getting "impatient" for a certain report. Recalled one: "That is as nasty as I have heard...
Sixty-eight-year-old Francis Boucher has also lived in Cambridge all here life. So did here mother. And her grandmother. "I'm very satisfied with Cambridge. The people are friendly, courteous and helpful, and I don't need a car to go anywhere I want," she says...
...part of his motivation program, Bryant has his players write down a set of goals, then tries to see that they accomplish them. No detail is overlooked. Running Back Major Ogilvie remembers the first things Bryant told his group of freshmen: "Be courteous to everyone, write home to your parents, and keep your rooms neat." Says Ogilvie: "He's so involved in your future. He teaches us as people, not as football players. He relates football to life rather than life to football...
...tone of Sadat's letter was courteous, care fully respectful and almost devoid of passion, especially in view of the provocation that prompted it: the Knesset's resolution proclaiming Jerusalem Israel's capital. The Egyptian President praised Begin for remaining "firm in your resolution to follow up the noble cause of peace without regard for the huge efforts required for such a venerable task...