Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the date was set, formidable logistical problems had to be coped with. To house the conferees, the Phil ippine government planned to commandeer the gracious old Manila Hotel, flanking the bay-though Johnson and some of the other government chiefs may stay at their embassies. Caring for the 1,000 newsmen expected to descend on Manila is an even more complicated matter, as Washington belatedly realized when it came to the task of ac commodating the 200 journalists who will cover Johnson's entire tour. Hastily the White House sent summonses for help to two former White House...
Died. Maurine Doran Clark, 74, wife of retired General Mark Clark, whose 1956 book, Captain's Bride, General's Lady, tells about her experiences in Army posts, where she won praise as a gracious hostess and the tribute "my five-star wife" from her four-star husband; of a heart attack; in Pinopolis...
...With gracious manners, in a spacious drawing room, a fiftyish couple are leading an embalmer's parody of life. Tobias (Hume Cronyn) looks like a pair of rumpled pajamas; Agnes (Jessica Tandy) has the cool, waxy elegance of an unlit candelabra. Their 36-year-old daughter has drifted away from four husbands. Agnes' unmarried sister Claire (Rosemary Murphy) drifts blissfully on a sea of alcohol. Like autumn leaves, they celebrate drift, having forgotten how to cling...
Series of Tableaux. De Gaulle's gracious reply came in the huge Olympic Stadium in Pnompenh. After 1,000 monks had chanted prayers for him, and 100,000 well-drilled Cambodians dressed in reds, whites, blues and greens had staged a kind of half-time football series of tableaux forming the words Vive la France with French and Cambodian flags and Vive De Gaulle with placards, the general took the rostrum. Bordering as it does on Viet Nam, Cambodia was a good place to amplify a message meant...
...warning. When accosting a foreign policeman, only one form is acceptable: "Excuse me, kind, brave and gracious sir, but could...