Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people I have ever seen; if they are lazing around it is usually for a good reason (either there is no work or they are conserving their very limited supply of physical energy). There is a side to them, to which I as a visitor was exposed, which is gracious, friendly, energetic, and happy, much as Americans are with foreigners of whom they approve. There is also a twisted side: like Americans, Bengalis are basically a bored and unhappy people, and seek cruel entertainment. When they have nothing else to do, many residents of Dacca sit by the roadside, waiting...
...crime jolted a family long accustomed to the luxurious living that wealth affords-a world of multiple estates, private aircraft and gracious entertaining in a circle of New York's theatrical, intellectual and political elite. Edgar Bronfman, 46, owns a $750,000, 174-acre estate in Yorktown, some 35 miles north of New York City in Westchester County, and two fashionable Manhattan apartments, one on Park Avenue valued at $1.5 million, the other a penthouse on Fifth Avenue. Chair man of Seagrams Company Ltd., he is a handsome, hard-driving businessman with an often mercurial temper...
With that Shakespearean shrug and a gracious pledge of loyalty to the new regime, Nigeria's "gentle soldier," Major General Yakubu Gowon, philosophically acquiesced to a bloodless palace coup that last week ousted him as his country's head of state. Gowon, who himself came to power following a coup in 1966, was the fifth leader of Black Africa to be deposed by a military revolt in the past 16 months.* He was also the first head of state on the continent to be deprived of office while attending a summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity...
Carpenter continued a gracious patter like a hostess casing a giant dinner party. "Someone once asked a friend of nine. How can you be the mother of two small children and a congresswoman at the same time", She replied. "Because I have a bratin and a uterus and I use both...
Walking toward the door, he stops and turns. "Gracious, I didn't get anything. Haven't you got something for me?" The question produces a panic among the salesmen, who scurry about the room flinging open display cases and grabbing boxes of rings. But Elton finds nothing amusing...