Word: courteousness
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...Courteous . . . Honorable." On Argentina the compromise was typical. Between the U.S. stand that Argentina should be ignored or castigated and the Latin demand that it be discussed and forgiven, a middle ground had been found. Said the resolution: it is too bad Argentina could not take part; it can still join up if it will "cooperate with the other American nations by identifying itself with the common policy . . . and by orienting its own policy until it achieves its incorporation into the United Nations as a signatory. . . . The final Act of the Conference is open to adhesion by the Argentine nation...
...first Emil's Uncle Mike (Fredric March) and Mike's fiancee Leona (Betty Field) are no more than amusedly mystified by the child's heel-clicking, catatonic gestures of patriotism. His new schoolmates, too, are a lot more lenient and courteous than they would be apt to be in real life; for a time the harmless little Scouts find his deadly weapons and deadlier ideas quite exciting...
...third batch was a fine example of military efficiency and good behavior, and they soon won our friendship. Their lorries, equipment, uniforms were spotless; they nailed tins to every post and tree for the rubbish, dug pits to burn it, swept the roads to keep them neat, were courteous and never rowdy or rude...
...something of a mystery. But Donald Nelson had bustled happily for 16 days through Chungking's mud and rain, conferred and consulted dynamically with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his advisers. The patient Chinese, even after seven years of war, were polite-in fact, they were so courteous and cooperative that Don Nelson fell in love with China. If the President will only allow it, he would rather like to go back to China as the U.S. Government's No. 1 "China...
King George VI was not pleased with the public's lukewarm, if friendly, reception of Elizabeth at her coming of age (TIME, April 24). The press was not pleased with the stereotyped handouts it got from the King's secretary, courteous Sir Eric Charles Mieville. The copy consisted largely of Gene Stratton Porterish references to the Princess' wholesome character...