Word: courteousness
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...Russians were openly suspicious of Tanaka's Peking trip and refused to discuss the islands at all. One reason for the stiffly courteous meeting may have been that Japan's recognition of China runs counter to the latest Soviet blueprint for peace in Asia. Moscow is already pressing on diplomats from the Far East a concept called "Asian collective security...
...Democrat who McCloskey once said "would make a great Congressman if he has the privilege to beat me in November." At the beginning of the campaign, both men agreed to a schedule of 33 debates; so far, only 13 have been held, and the tone has been more courteous than antagonistic. Their major point of disagreement is over whether McCloskey has become too absorbed in national issues to represent the district properly...
...certainly they were publicity flops, in part because of his own hostility to the press, but they were not necessarily failures from the point of view of Nixon's foreign policy. A high ranking State Department official feels that in general Agnew has handled himself well. "He is courteous and articulate. He understands and reflects nuances. He has always been able to establish rapport with leaders of foreign governments." Though Agnew has gone out of his way to defend the colonels in Greece, the official feels that there, too, the Vice President carried out the orders he was given...
Flying into Budapest in the course of an 18-day, ten-nation swing through Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers prepared for a meeting with Hungarian Party Boss Janos Kadar that briefers advised him would be courteous but cool. Instead, Rogers found that the Hungarians had literally and figuratively rolled out a red carpet for him. In a 75-minute session (it was scheduled for only a half-hour), Rogers and Kadar explored the prospects of increased trade and technological support for a Communist country whose relations with the U.S. since. World...
...chair or whisking it away. Thus his paintings occupy a very fine edge between poignancy and burlesque, submitting neither to the expressionist flavor of one nor to the cartooning of the other. What his work amounts to is a visual comedy of manners. Hockney's vision is both courteous and sharp; he is the Anthony Powell of painting...