Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nice." Jackie Kennedy also made a gracious gesture toward the nation's newshens, inviting 200 of them for lunch. The presswomen, led in through the southwest gate, which is usually reserved for state occasions, drove past daughter Caroline's jungle-gym swings and duck pond. Jackie greeted each guest with a warm friendliness. Said she to Eugenia Sheppard, the New York Herald Tribune Women's Feature Editor: "How nice to meet you, at last!" Eugenia melted, could barely wait to rush off to her typewriter. "It was exactly the female kind of party that we took...
...Washington awoke to its propaganda defeat, the proper people said the proper things. President Kennedy congratulated the Russians. So did James Webb, chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. But behind the cheerful and gracious phrases were frustration, shame, sometimes fury.U.S. spacemen had been beaten again...
...Chosen One. Italian history tells of no other queen more gracious and pious than Theodolinda. She was the daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, and toward the end of the 6th century she married the powerful Authari, King of the warlike Lombards. Shortly thereafter, in 591, Authari died suddenly, some said by poison. Normally the death of a King would have precipitated a bloody scramble for the throne among local chiefs, with Theodolinda as a sort of door prize. But in the few years she had been Queen, Theodolinda had become so beloved among the Lombards that they insisted that...
...grants and loans could never do, "setting realistic targets and sound standards." It establishes controls to ensure that the politicians and economists of poor nations take development seriously. If the controls work at all, planners will not wish to waste their funds on television sets for the more gracious living rooms in Pnom Penh. And American administrators can, with a little tact, free the program's strictness from the infuriating paternalism, of previous years...
...Kennedy and Johnson. When he had finished, House Speaker Sam Rayburn applauded, told Nixon it was the first speech he had ever applauded during his tenure as House Speaker. The Congress and the galleries exploded with the kind of ovation that belongs to a good loser who makes a gracious gesture...