Word: courteousness
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...call from a friend in Europe. He was both frantic and furious. He had just been turned back at New York's JFK airport and sent home on the first flight. He missed his son's wedding - the son is an American citizen. The FBI at JFK was courteous but would only tell him he was on a terrorist list. Nothing the man could say helped. Was he on Maryland's list, now an undesirable alien and permanently excluded from the United States? Probably not, but in this era of secret evidence, who knows...
...head coach of the Harvard women’s heavyweight crew team, Liz O’Leary, said that “everybody is courteous and respectful and follows the traffic patterns,” and everything runs smoothly “as long as there’s good communication among people who are using the river...
Before Quayle's infamous 1988 debate with Lloyd Bentsen, stand-in Bob Packwood assured Quayle that Bentsen was a courteous man who wouldn't be rough on the young Senator, Schroeder says...
...that last weekend in August 2005, these soul survivors radiate a faith that is deep, sustaining and perennially, impossibly hopeful. They don't pick fights with the police, soldiers and bureaucrats who were AWOL during the storm and who offer little help after it. Kim and Scott are unfailingly courteous. They believe that when disaster strikes, everyone's a victim...
...courteous, gracious, and friendly, but when I changed to a topic on women and gender, he was not completely helpful," Schiebinger said. "I would say I succeeded despite Fleming not because...