Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; of a stroke; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. Personification of the "strenuous life" advocated by her famed father-in-law, Mrs. Roosevelt was a dedicated service worker in Europe during both World Wars, a vigorous campaigner in her husband's races for public office, a gracious Governor's lady during his terms in Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and in her 1959 memoirs, Day Before Yesterday, an able chronicler of their life together...
...handwriting on the wall. "I'll hold my nose and vote for him, even campaign for him," he told an audience of longshoremen in Portland, "because even he's better than Nixon, and that's the best I can say for him." Morse was similarly gracious in his telegram of concession: "Mrs. Morse and I extend to you and Mrs. Kennedy congratulations on your victory in Oregon...
...headpiece, chased Frank Sinatra across the nightclub stage waving a tomahawk and shrieking, "You call me paleface one more time, I scalp you." Milton Berle promised that a coming act would be Beverly Aadland singing, My Momma Done Sold Me, then paid tribute to Sinatra: "It's very gracious of Frank to take a night out of his sex life to be here." Starlet Juliet Prowse, who takes up much of Sinatra's life these days, writhed through a smoldering dance number. Marge Champion rode an elephant...
...setting up an automatic drive-in with a complete menu on Kansas City's South Side. Says Vendo's Board Chairman Elmer F. Pierson: "In America today nobody wants to be a servant, and vending machines free people from being servants." The service may not be gracious, but it also saves tipping...
During his first six months in Peking, Austrian-born Correspondent Nossal, 33, has done little to impair the Globe's diplomatic relations with Red China. Bland, approving copy has flowed westward, uncensored, on Red China officialdom ("gracious and courteous"), babies ("cute and chubby and cuddlesome"), the sights in the capital ("Peking is almost ready for the tourists; it has little to be ashamed of and much to be proud of"), Premier Chou En-lai ("vibrant personality"), and industry ("The organization of China's industrial enterprises is excellent"). Sometimes his stories have sounded as if they were translated from...