Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gracious Loser. In effect, Benn had been moved neither up nor down but sideways. As Energy Minister, he will preside over the development of North Sea Oil, the only bright spot in Britain's otherwise cloudy economic future. Lest the oil companies panic, however, Wilson made it clear that Benn will have little hand in the delicate licensing negotiations the government is now conducting with them...
...Benn felt a bit manhandled, he did not say so. In fact he seemed almost to revel in his new public role as a good and gracious loser. "I have just been in receipt of a very big message from the British people," he said in a television interview. "I read it loud and clear." Whether that means he is ready to modify his radically leftist approach to economic policy remains to be seen. At any rate, his politic response to the popular will suggests that Benn, at 50, thinks he is a man with a future. Wilson...
Meanwhile the U.S., deeply moved by China's suffering under the Japanese onslaught, came to idolize Chiang and especially his wife. An enrapt Wendell Willkie spoke of her combination of "brains, persuasiveness and moral force ... with wit and charm, a generous and understanding heart, a gracious and beautiful manner, and a burning conviction." Others resented her imperious will and her attempts to influence U.S. wartime strategy on Chiang's behalf. At that time the generalissimo wanted the U.S. to place less emphasis on the war against Germany and more on the fight against Japan; he sought more arms...
...instruments of the orchestra--and is even a catchy enough piece in its own right. But the narration, rarely leaving the level of "And now, here's the Big Bass Drum," was clearly written for children and is a pointless text for this audience. Even Professor John Finley's gracious reading couldn't help but bog down the action and make us feel that it was getting past our bedtime...
...midafternoon, Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy sounded the final chord of a recital at New York's 92nd Street Y.M. & Y.W.H.A. Holding up his watch and resolutely waving off all requests for encores, he declared, "You have been most gracious, but I must go to hear Vladimir Horowitz...