Word: courteousness
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...apartment Don lives in-not too flossy and not too shabby-looks exactly as the interior of a remodeled Manhattan brownstone should look. Don's girl friend (Jane Wy-man), who also plays the role of a TIME researcher, seems qualified for the job: she is bright, courteous, indefatigable and impervious to rebuffs...
...Dorsey he made the second steamboat trip in history up the Yangtze Gorges to the then inconspicuous city of Chungking. The Chinese along the rim knocked off work and crowded the banks, in a friendly way, "to watch us drown." The Chinese also liked to line up, at a courteous distance, to watch the foreigners handle knives & forks. One suppertime a missionary's wife, annoyed at their staring, slung a glass of water in their faces. Webster, a gentle man, still colors up when he remembers it: "I had to control myself as hard as I ever...
...first contact on the enemy's ground provided a preview of the conquered's behavior under occupation. Two Lightning pilots from Okinawa set down unexpectedly on a Kyushu airfield to wait for a rescue plane carrying gas. Jap personnel at the field were courteous and co operative - and they treated the Americans as equals...
Even less courteous was the Chungking Foreign Correspondents' Club, which called Taylor's plan "preposterous and presumptuous." Correspondents' Club members, who had been working at the tortuous, tangled Chinese censorship problem long before Henry J. Taylor dropped in, planned to go right on working at it after he had gone...
...resolution, even Argentina's Acting Foreign Minister, César Ameghino, purred: "A courteous and honorable formula" that permits Argentina to "go ahead in search of satisfactory solutions...