Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember, the Catamounts were gracious hosts. They committed three errors on the afternoon, and a passed ball scored Harvard's first run to tie the game at 1-1 in the third...
These are six-and seven-year-olds, I admit. They're not yet expected to be polite, gracious members of society. But when I chatted with my sponsor, who has taught first grade for 25 years, she said that 10 and 15 years ago, she didn't have to teach kids how to blow their noses. She didn't have to remind kids as much to wash their hands. They learned these social skills where they should learn them--from their parents, at home...
These days, though, life is quieter. John has just renovated his home in Old Windsor. He gutted the building, filled the rooms with antiques, decked the walls with illustrations of naval battles, stocked the shelves with Meissen and Staffordshire. A gracious home for the Country Squire...
Grant, a pro-choice conservative who can be gracious to guests and rapacious to callers, got a dose of his own malice last fall. Frank Lautenberg, the New Jersey Democratic Senator who was in a bitter race with Republican and frequent Grant guest Chuck Haytaian, ran ads stating that "Grant calls blacks savages, and called Martin Luther King a scumbag." A tri-state ruckus ensued, with New Jersey Republican Governor Christine Whitman declaring she would no longer appear on Grant's show and citizens calling for the host's scalp and other body parts. But all the heat didn...
...Conner, the world's most famous sailor, has been less than gracious. At a regatta dinner in Newport, Rhode Island, last August, he called the women's team "a bunch of lesbians," prompting team navigator Annie Nelson to douse him with her rum-and-coke. "He was way out of line," says Nelson. Trenkle, who was standing nearby, maintains that the comment was "locker-room humor. They were joking around." Many of the women were not amused. "Ninety percent of us are either married or have steady boyfriends, but who cares?" says mainsheet grinder Stephanie Armitage-Johnson...