Word: courteousness
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...think the following poem will interest your readers. It is a pretty old one, but it simply and effectively sums up the temperament of the belligerently aggressive Chinese: How courteous is the sweet Chinese; He always says, "Excuse it, please." He climbs into his neighbor's garden And smiles and says, "I beg your pardon." He bows and grins a friendly grin, And calls his hungry family, in; He grins and bows a friendly bow, "So solly, this is my garden...
...only is about the best passer over to throw a football, he is also an ideal young man. He rises early each morning to deliver papers, chats with students and helps them with homework, modestly removes signs saying "We Love You, Archie," drinks milk, studies hard, is friendly, brave, courteous, helpful, obedient, cheerful, reverent, and lots more...
...John has never stopped talking about Christian unity as the aim of the council. "We must bestir ourselves," he told one group of missionaries, "and not rest until we have over come our old habits of thought, our prejudices and the use of expressions that are anything but courteous, so as to create a climate favorable to the reconciliation we look forward...
...meticulous jurist and diplomat, whose favorite description of himself is "a brain on ice," Zafrulla has always been, in an era of revolution and extremism, an advocate of moderate policies. Unfailingly courteous, even in the most heated debates, he disdains flamboyant and vituperative oratory in favor of low-keyed logical argument, has often clashed in the U.N. with his archfoe, India's leading warlock, V. K. Krishna Menon. Though Zafrulla was an early champion of Indian independence, he never became a crusader or an inmate of political prisons like Nehru, preferred instead to work for an evolutionary agreement with...
...about Dirksen. Says a White House staffer: "Who could dislike Dirksen? He gets his arm around your shoulder and, well, he's a total pro, able, cute and clever." He is also-as a result of his midlands upbringing in a plain, small town-trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. And when he traces his beginnings, as did Lincoln, in "the short and simple annals of the poor," those homely virtues take on a fresh meaning...