Word: courteousness
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From the questions it was clear that the Justices were struggling to adapt the most perplexing social questions into a manageable legal framework. They were obviously not comfortable. Justice Lewis Powell, normally the most courteous of Virginia gentlemen, uncharacteristically attacked Colvin: "We are here primarily to hear a constitutional argument," he said softly. "You have devoted 20 minutes to belaboring the facts, if I may say so. I would like help, I really would, on the constitutional issues...
...There was no rudeness, none at all. The discussions were businesslike and frank. General Secretary [Leonid] Brezhnev said he intended to be frank, and I said I appreciated that and would be frank too. I found him courteous and straightforward...
...Presidential Assistant James Schlesinger, the subject of this week's cover. Just as naturally, Mr. Energy was not about to hand over the blueprint of a policy he was just then building. Though he gave Sider several hours of his time and was, says Sider, "patient, courteous, open and helpful," Schlesinger, like his aides, declined to reveal any details...
...strong, lovable, amusing parents (rooted in a place and confident there) and the sibling of vivid and irreverent juniors, he is trained to expect equal fare from the world. He can't often get it, but he's trained to go on trying-as courteous son; tried but patient older brother; as Christian fellow creature; and as lifelong veteran of small-town culture, which requires a sophistication of manners at least the equivalent of manners at Versailles...
...commercials) proved not to be a major factor. Even though Moynihan banged his head and wrenched his neck when his small plane hit an air pocket, and had to spend three precious days recuperating, he easily made up the lost time. For his part, the normally couth and courteous Buckley turned tiger, depicting Moynihan as a fuzzy-minded liberal professor whose wild spending schemes would cost wage-earning families of four $63 a week in new taxes...