Word: courteousness
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Perhaps these improved conditions would also result in a change for the better in the ticket office's attitude towards students. If easing the load for employees will allow them more time to be courteous and helpful, they should have the time. Judging from past experiences, though, one would imagine nothing could help the HAA ticket office's disposition. Distribution of football tickets is not an act of generosity on the part of the HAA, but an obligation. This branch of the HAA is a service organization and the service is to be expected, not humbly requested...
...Deal. The Maulas who inhabit Monsarrat's island are a grave, long-winded, humorless people, including urbanized zoot-suiters down at the port and taboo-ridden jungle men up north. The older Maulas are courteous and profoundly conservative-content with the hope that their chief will one day lead them to a seat in the commodious kraal of the British Commonwealth. The chief is 22-year-old Dinamaula; seven years of English schools, an Oxford law degree and the flattering attention of progressive girls...
Long Month's Journey. In Pasadena, Calif., after 24 club members, 100 police officers and 250 boy car club members searched for a month, failed to find any qualifiers, the Sertoma Club called off this year's contest to pick the city's most courteous driver...
...much. Some 3,500 turned out to hear him call Nixon "shifty," "rash" and "inexperienced," a "man of many masks." (Tom Dewey had drawn 5,000 the night before.) The crowd in the one-third empty auditorium responded politely: although the words were harsh, Stevenson's manner was courteous...
Even in the heat of a political campaign, most Californians agree, U.S. Senator Thomas Henry Kuchel (rhymes with treacle) is a nice guy. Affable, earnest, courteous-Tommy Kuchel is all of those and more. Last week the principal reason for Dwight Eisenhower's trip to Los Angeles was.to lend a needed helping hand to Kuchel's re-election campaign. Yet, after Ike landed, Nice Guy Kuchel was so nice that he let another Republican, ebullient, shoulder-thumping Governor Goodwin J. Knight, elbow him out of the limelight...