Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickly discovered as well that she was an ideal ambassador, and she has probably traveled more miles abroad than any other First Lady. Through some legerdemain, she always managed on those trips, no matter how long and tiring the day, to look perfectly turned out and to be gracious...
...fatigue, Fischer's trip had its compensations. "The Arab tradition of hospitality," he says, "is alive and well. When we arrived at Sidi Jabir railroad station in Alexandria, members of the press were each presented with a fresh flower by gracious Egyptian girls. At the Alexandria Sporting Club, we were plied with Arab pastries and cool glasses of lemonade." Egyptian crowds all along the route cheered wildly for the two Presidents and directed huzzas at the press corps riding by-until recently a rare experience for Americans in Egypt...
...women's liberation. Denying that he is a misogynist, he said, "I really love women." In the next breath he said of sex equality, "I'm against it." Then he got onto a subject that cheered him up: Oriental women. "They're tender, loving, beautiful, gracious and thoroughly feminine...
Both women are youthful, intelligent, attractive and gracious, with a ravenous desire for privacy. Now, perhaps, Mrs. Onassis will come a step closer to regaining her well-deserved privacy...
...time and that of others in Oval Office chitchat. This has sometimes led Ford "to break off their conversations." But Ford contends that he was misunderstood; he meant that he feels he sometimes takes up too much of the President's time and thus seeks a gracious way to cut such conversations short...