Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans made one major concession and one minor. They agreed to a $40 million increase in price-support funds. As a favor to the "very gracious and charming gentlewoman from Ohio," Frances Bolton, they added $7,500 to pay the salary of a department marketing-news reporter for the Cleveland area. But when the chips were down, the G.O.P. ranks held firm. The final cut was a whopping $340 million...
Come and dance the Royal Minuet, Such a dainty thing you're bound to get. It's created for a gracious name, A sweet princess of Royal fame...
...Crown has lost in weight, it has gained in glamor. Princess Elizabeth, who will be the next wearer-unless her parents, most improbably, have a son-shows no more sign of greatness than the young Victoria did. She is not required to be great; she is expected to be gracious...
...suffering of the working class through inadequate housing is deplorable." "Personally," Elizabeth told a South African M.P., "I feel rather guilty for being here enjoying myself when the people at home are suffering so." It was a statement worthy of a future Queen, not only because it was gracious and considerate, but because the royal heiress, for all her pretty apology, was not really having much...
Kiphuth's lads were the dominant element of a two-day water fest, proving hardly a gracious host to the many visiting aggregations. In the Friday night finals they took first and second in the 50-yard freestyle and the 150-yard back-stroke, and the first four notches in the 220-yard freestyle...