Word: courteousness
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...Spandau, with his unloved and unloving mates, he was always courteous and rarely complained, as they did. But to his wife, the baroness, he wrote: "I don't think I can stand it much longer." Repeatedly, Britain, France and the U.S. suggested to Russia (which shares in the running of Spandau) that old Baron von Neurath be let out of prison to die. Each time the Russians said no. Sir Winston Churchill confessed in the House of Commons: "Von Neurath has my sympathy...
...were the days when the Soviets sent a few heavy tools and a few heavy-handed "salesmen" with propaganda pamphlets. Now the Communists were smooth fellows, showing off automobiles, caviar, medical equipment and agricultural implements and talking grandly (though also vaguely) of delivery dates and competitive prices. They were courteous as could be. "After all," explained a Red trade weekly, "politeness and hospitality have nothing to do with capitalist customs. Both were practiced in the ancient days." At Izmir, record crowds of Turks were enticed by shiny Russian goods and a natural curiosity about their hated neighbors. A Turk examined...
...games with G.I. teams, they came as guests of the American Chamber of Commerce and with Army permission. The ballplayers were split up and stayed in the private homes of the various business people, two and three per home. We found them all to be regular fellows, courteous, well-behaved and quite friendly...
...noon one day last week, a thin woman with roughened hands and bitter mouth walked across the huge chandeliered reception room at Malacanan, the palace of Filipino Presidents, and into the office marked "Presidential Complaints and Action Commission." A tired but courteous official asked her to sit down and tell him her trouble. Her problem, she said in soft Tagalog, was that her husband was about to go off to the U.S. and abandon her; she wanted President Magsaysay to keep him at home...
...witness said that he had no animosity for Secretary Stevens, "a fine, gentlemanly, courteous person." He took quite a different attitude toward John Adams, implying contemptuously that Adams had made the great mistake of trying to outwit Cohn...