Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Queen Elizabeth II surprised Parliament last May by sending a "gracious message" to Westminster asking for a raise in her allowance. In an age when most of her subjects take an annual wage increase for granted, the Queen was struggling to run the royal household on a budget of $1,187,500 that had not been increased since she succeeded to the throne in 1952. During that time, wages in Britain had increased 126% and prices by 74%; last year, expenditures for the royal household exceeded the allowance by $675,000. which Her Majesty had to make up from other...
...KENNETH PARRATT Austin,Texas Gracious Georgians...
...Golden Egg," you say that the gifts to the Governors [Nov. 22] were "a little tasteless." I beg to differ with you. Twas nothing more than a gracious act on the part of the people of the state of Georgia...
...adopted Georgian, I would like to point out that you are not dealing with cold logicians when you deal with Georgians. A Georgian is truly a gracious person, be he rich or poor, black or white. Thus given the opportunity, such as at the S.G.C., he wants to give a small bit of that of which he is so proud...
...theoretically one of the most powerful in Washington, but its actual clout has varied widely with the man filling it. McCracken, on leave from the University of Michigan, was one of its less mighty occupants. Gracious and courtly, he once asserted: "I'm a professor, not a politician." No infighter, he was elbowed aside in policymaking by Budget Boss George Shultz. When Treasury Secretary John Connally replaced Shultz as top economic-policy man, McCracken rode Connally's coattails within the Government by arguing -well before Stein-for an incomes policy. Publicly, however, McCracken became known for doggedly insisting...