Word: courteousness
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...Member of Parliament, clerk, street sweeper, all live in the same terror of flunking the blood-alcohol test and being clapped into jail. Time and again, when we lived in Denmark, friends with as few as two schnapps or highballs under their belts telephoned the police-who dispatched a courteous cop, free of charge, to drive them home...
...Though there is room for improvement in cars, there's not much that present models won't do in the hands of educated, courteous drivers on roads not cluttered with "booby traps," governed by horse-and-buggy regulations or filled with drivers in worn-out cars who consider driving a right rather than a privilege. The good Senator Ribicoff [March 25] should try a few laps in the Hartford cross-town competition some cold, rainy night-Sebring is safer...
...himself. "Frankly, I hope Sammy wins," grunted Edwin H. Bigelow, 79, ex-president of the Squash Association. "He'll wear his laurels more easily, I think, than the Niederhoffer boy." Niederhoffer's problem is that he does not quite fit the trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent mold of the gentleman squash player...
...drinker all right, and he was often shy with strangers, but he was no hermit. A dapper and courteous little man, he had a coterie of fishing and hunting companions in his home town, as well as numerous publishing friends in New York. He was always given a top table when he dropped in at Toots Shor's or "21" on his frequent visits to New York, graciously gave his autograph when asked, and readily discussed writing with perfect strangers -if they were not newsmen. In 1957 and 1958, he was the writer-in-residence at the University...
Perhaps it did not dawn on Morning Star that the courteous smiles she got from her countrymen concealed a healthy skepticism. The Japanese, like everyone else, know that calm has by no means returned to Indonesia. Since the Communists' coup attempt last September, the army has looked the other way while Moslem mobs killed at least 100,000 members and supporters of Indonesia's pro-Peking Communist Party. And now the purge was spreading south from Sumatra and Java to Bali. Nor was it the press of business that kept hubby at home; Sukarno is said to have...