Word: courteousness
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...administered, Peking received, I think, five red stars. Tientsin also received five stars, but Canton received none. Hankow, a little worse than Canton, received the black star. About the worker's attitude, on the train leaving Canton we tried to tip some of the trainmen because they were exceptionally courteous and helpful to us--but when we offered a tip we were not only refused, but told to sit down and given a half hour lecture about how we workers are masters, none of this patronizing by tipping anymore...
Toward Hot Water. The man who would replace Sir Stafford Cripps wore the same school tie (Winchester). Hugh Gaitskell, 44, is 17 years younger than Cripps and in many respects different. He is neither vegetarian nor teetotaler. While Cripps appears unyielding, Gaitskell is modest, unassuming and courteous...
Into the Casa Rosada marched a well-briefed delegation of 300 Buenos Aires housewives. They had come to ask President Perón for "collective action and boycott" against the city's chiseling food merchants who had doubled their grocery bills in the past year. With a courteous bow, the President stepped forward on cue and launched another in the series of government campaigns against Argentina's five-year-old inflation...
...good Coca-Cola driver-salesman must be part Boy Scout and part diplomat, with a dash of the movie hero thrown in. His supreme duty: to make friends with the dealers. His list of "do's" commands: "Look your best. Greet the Dealer. Smile . . . Show interest ... Be courteous ... Be honest . . . Keep promises. Make change . . . Thank Dealer." Of course, there are refinements of these simple tenets: "If, for example, the dealer's wife has just presented him with a new baby, the friendly salesman congratulates...
...Tourism Committee also announces that additional efforts have been made this year to insure fair prices and courteous treatment of tourists this summer. According to the committee, the national tourist bureaus of E.R.P. nations have made effective measures to curb and correct abuses...