Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer in the 1930s. being in Europe, I went up to Finland to see Dr. [Jean] Sibelius. He was most gracious and we had long conversations. As you probably know, he lives about 25 miles outside of Helsinki at a place called Jarvenpaa. which means "Lake's End." One can go out from the capital by a little train in about an hour, or by motor car in less. His villa is built of logs and stands on a knoll among pines and silver birches overlooking the lake to the westward. At the foot of this knoll but still...
...Russia, a huge chemical plant was built right beside a beloved tourist attraction: Yasnaya Polyana, Leo Tolstoy's gracious country estate. Unmonitored fumes are poisoning Tolstoy's forests of oak and pine, and powerless conservationists can only wince. With equal indifference, the Soviet pulp and paper industry has settled on the shores of Lake Baikal. No matter how fully the effluents are treated, they still defile the world's purest waters...
...Eduardo Frei agreed to support Allende unanimously in return for guarantees that Allende would preserve Chile's cherished democratic traditions. Then last week the runner-up right-wing candidate, former President (1958-1964) Jorge Alessandri, urged his congressional supporters not to oppose Allende. Alessandri's gesture was gracious but hardly affected the outcome. In the traditional secret ballot, the 195 Senators and Deputies present supported Allende over Alessandri by a margin...
Plea for Civility. The occasion for the speech was as appropriate as the setting. It was the first of K-State's Alfred M. Landon Lectures this year, a gracious presidential gesture to the 83-year-old Kansan who survived his humiliation in 1936 at the hands of Franklin Roosevelt to become a minor elder statesman of the Republican Party. K-State, as political instinct and the Secret Service informed Nixon, was a comparatively safe campus on which he could propound his ideas on radical violence; Nixon won the 1968 mock election there...
From the air, Saigon appears to shimmer in the midday sunshine. The light dances off mile after mile of tin-roof shacks, and reflects from the waters of serpentine rivers. On the ground, unfortunately, the city has lost its glitter. Though it remained gracious and unhurried until four or five years ago, reports TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark, Saigon now suffers from the ills that afflict modern cities-and then some. No fewer than 894,000 vehicles, ranging from Lambrettas to lumbering trucks, jam the city's streets. Their fumes engulf Saigon in a noxious blue haze that is killing...