Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army officers, policemen or stockbrokers. The person most qualified to know this is Mrs. Hasseltine herself, who has traded on the genuine honor and outrage of most of the officers in pressing her charges. In referring to Millington, Mrs. Hasseltine goes on to say, "He is the only gentleman I have met in all my years with this regiment." But he has not acted remotely like a gentleman, only like a sour, spoiled, self-indulgent brat. Besides, Mrs. Hasseltine is in the weakest position to raise any moral questions since it is she who has maligned an innocent...
...Just because they found a rock with some Jewish writing on it does not prove anything. You'd think everybody discovered America, which by the way is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian gentleman," he said...
Back in the U.S., Calley began to be bothered by doubts. People would come up to him and say that they were on his side. "What can I say if a gentleman tells me, 'I know you're right,' if I have an inner conflict and I myself don't know it? Maybe the mission in My Lai was wrong. What is a V.C.? Is a man with a hand grenade a V.C.? Someone who houses him, is that a V.C.? I'm home now and I hear people saying, 'Everyone there...
...that Hambro is the despairing type. Norway's chief delegate to the U.N. since 1966, Hambro was the unanimous choice of the European members, whose turn it was by gentleman's agreement to select the president for the coming session; he was elected by 122 of 124 votes cast in a secret ballot.* The bespectacled Hambro, a delegate to the U.N. founding conference in 1945, is the son of the late Carl J. Hambro, who served as the last president of the League of Nations. As a student, young Edvard did research under a fellowship at League headquarters...
...tempted to say the old meetings were lovely," H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, said in June. "They had the air of a gentleman's club, whereas now it's more like a parliament...