Word: courteousness
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...basis of personal knowledge, I consider your epithet [crusty] about the cardinal discourteous and untrue. He is beyond question unbending on matters of principle-for example, Communism. But this has nothing to do with his personal characteristics. In five years of daily association, I have always found him unfailingly courteous and affable with everyone...
...being Harvard men--dauntless, resourceful, courteous--they were unperturbed. Some left. Some gnashed their teeth and formed lines to dance with the few, hysterically cheerful Cliffies...
Fearless and teal, pious and pitying, cunning and courteous, he was a paragon of chivalry and the mold of Spanish manhood. He became a legend in his lifetime, and some 40 years after his death in 1099 he was celebrated in El Poema de Mio Cid-a vast rambling rime that became the national epic-as the Lancelot of Spain and something more, as a sort of Round Table...
...third period, though, everybody had a good time. Once a courteous exchange of fumbles was out of the way, Harvard moved 50 yards to a TD behind the powerful running of Bob Stringer and Harshbarger, and Tim Casgar's passing. Stringer ran the ball in from the 7, and Casgar completed the action with a conversion pass to Pat Young...
...McNamara, patient and courteous in the center of charges that his officers are being "muzzled" by Pentagon censors, has chosen to assume entire responsibility for the muzzling. Rather than subscribing to the extraordinary notion that the discipline of General Edwin Walker is the work of radical subversives within the Department, he has flatly stated it to be his own. He has, in short, refused to allow the martyrdom of General Walker...