Word: courteousness
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...prepared to argue about tracks, roadbed, stations or top management of the P.R.R., but I must rise to the defense of the passenger trainmen. They are-at least on the Middle and Pittsburgh Divisions-courteous and helpful gentlemen ... On one occasion I discovered a conductor sending a wire ahead for "training pants" for a distracted mother, whose baggage had not made the train in Pittsburgh. These important articles were placed in her hands at Harrisburg...
...Courteous but Stiff. At the Munsan advance outpost, the correspondents waited, hour after hour, for the helicopters' return. Finally, at 4:40 in the afternoon, the 'copters came churning into view. Colonel Kinney and his teammates stepped out, poker-faced and silent. Their official communique: the preliminary conference had been successful. The actual cease-fire negotiations would get under way at Kaesong on Tuesday of this week. At this meeting, the U.N. team will be headed by Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy (see box). The Communist delegation will be composed of three North Koreans, General Nam II, General...
...Seoul, Colonel Kinney held a press conference and told what had happened in the mansion at Kaesong. In the conference room, the U.N. men found a table with five chairs on each side. There were no pictures of Stalin, no poster propaganda of any kind. The atmosphere was courteous but unbending and stiff; the Communist delegation was composed of a North Korean colonel named Chang Chun San and two lieutenant colonels, one North Korean, one Chinese (plus two interpreters). Chang, a trim man in a green, Russian-style uniform with red shoulder boards, did all the talking for his side...
London's Wimbledon gallery, the most knowing and courteous of tennis audiences, understandably tended to cheer for the Empire player from Down Under. But they had little to cheer about. Savitt's flat, deep serves, baseline-nicking drives, and sharply angled passing shots often left McGregor flatfooted. Savitt won in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4-the shortest final (61 min.) in memory. Only after the final point, in which McGregor sprawled helplessly after a whipping backhand down the line, did Savitt yank the emotional safety valve. Throwing his racket high in the air, he exploded...
...once the committee doors swung shut, Acheson's questioners, Republican as well as Democratic, settled into the attitude of grave decision that had dominated the investigation from the start. The Republican members, however noisy the blood cries of their colleagues outside, were courteous, dispassionate and earnestly in search of answers. Often, they avoided pressing partisan advantages...