Word: courteousness
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...President needs an ever fresh curiosity about this big and complicated country. He can help overcome his isolation by seeking and taking advice from a broad circle. But many otherwise courageous people will simply not talk candidly to a President. He may be a very courteous listener, as Carter was, and still be incapable of any real exchange except with a very few intimates...
story. Said Rather: "Mr. Reagan told me, 'There has been no retreat by me, no change whatsoever. We will continue to arm Taiwan.' " Later, Rather said he admired the President's courteous manner: "He spoke his mind but didn't raise his voice ... Hope he won't hesitate to call again...
...cliché of crime reporting that the murderer is described as polite, gentle and law-abiding. Richard Herrin, a courteous, religious chicano who had made it through Yale, certainly fit the nice-guy stereotype-at least until July 7, 1977. That morning, at the Scarsdale, N.Y., home of his girlfriend, Bonnie Garland, 20, Herrin, 23, smashed Bonnie's skull with a hammer as she slept. A few hours later, half-naked and covered in her blood, he surrendered to police in upstate New York, confessing that he had killed...
...began in earnest, the Secretary-General met separately each day with Parsons and Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros in his 38th-floor U.N. suite. As time went on, the Peruvian-born diplomat played an increasingly active part, sometimes suggesting directly ideas of his own. He remained pleasant and courteous, but the strain began to show: his color was gray, his eyes were hollow behind his glasses, and he stooped as he walked...
...states that he is unaware that some tenants perceive that rent board members generally accord him a warmer reception that other, less experienced attorneys and most tenants. But he offers a possible explanation. "When I'm appearing before the board. I try to be courteous, which by the way is not a common virtue [among the parties] in there. A lot of people well at them [members of the rent board...