Word: courteousness
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...midst of a government crisis again, created by the downfall of wispy, white-haired Premier Antonio Segni. But what seemed only an annual event (Premiers have averaged ten months in office since Italy's late great Alcide de Gasperi was defeated in 1953) became something more last week. Courteous, conservative Cesare Merzagora, 61, longtime president of Italy's Senate, dramatically posed a fundamental question: How healthy is Italy's 15-year-old postwar democracy...
Sensational in Swahili. By most who know him, Tom Mboya is respected but not loved, for the hard climb up the ladder has tempered his shy, modest personality with a clinically detached coldness and an occasional ruthlessness that angers enemies and saddens friends. He is courteous and correct, but a hard man to know. He lacks the warm, friendly charm of the African he admires most...
...students. Foremost among these are honesty, self-reliance, a high standard of personal conduct, and a concern for the name of the University in its relationship with the community in which it is situated ... we expect our students to exhibit becoming conduct at all times, to be courteous in all their relations with other people, and to show a careful regard for property belonging to others...
...General Assembly into agreeing to a debate restricted to the Khrushchev proposals, Russia's First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov announced that if the general disarmament plan were accepted "in principle," the task of working out controls "would not be difficult." Kuznetsov's tone was unwontedly courteous, but nothing he said represented any real concession to Western insistence that workable disarmament must be preceded by agreement on a rigid inspection and control system...
...North-East Frontier Agency (see map). Last week he got back a blandly conciliatory note from Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai saying that the two countries' differences were nothing more than "an episode in our age-old friendship." But this time Nehru refused to be mollified. Most courteous, said he of the note, but any further Chinese aggression against India "will certainly be fully resisted." Added the Hindustan Times: "If another Bandung Conference were held today, it would be a conference of Asian and African countries to consider common action against Han [Chinese] expansionism...