Word: courteousness
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...widower for the last decade, Artzybasheff was a gentle, courteous, urbane man, sedate in manner but impassioned in his work. If he sometimes painted nightmares-wars, monstrous weapons, a personified hangover that still haunts many a morning-after-it was only because he was on the side of man. Like most satirists, Boris secretly loved what he seemed to attack. A glimpse of a locomotive walking on crutches or a truck holding its head suggested that, to him, even machines had souls. What was more, they served man. "I would rather watch a thousand-ton dredge dig a canal...
...show no pity nor be courteous, But rather play at passion like a bear; And if love scourge me now because...
...Japanese stake in Africa is still modest-only $7,000,000 in direct investments-and its sales to Africa of $608 million last year accounted for only 9% of Japan's total exports. Nevertheless, by combining courteous persistence, cut-rate prices, fat markups for local dealers and fast delivery, the Japanese are steadily firming their foothold. Japan's trade with Africa has nearly doubled in the past five years. Only in the former French colonies have the Japanese failed so far to make any real progress, primarily because of import restrictions favoring the French...
...after a week's wondering, I am conscience-bound to refuse your courteous invitation . . . Although I am very enthusiastic about most of your domestic legislation and intentions, I nevertheless can only follow our present foreign policy with the greatest dismay and distrust. We are in danger of imperceptibly becoming an explosive and suddenly chauvinistic nation, and we may even be drifting on our way to the last nuclear ruin...
...courteous, middle-aged gunman held up a teller at the Cambridge Federal Savings and Loan Association in Brattle Square at 9 a.m. yesterday, and escaped with...