Word: graciously
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thought the President might like a relaxing night talking about his favorite sport. After a dessert of ice cream and cookies shaped like French fries and hot dogs, Bush gave the group a tour of his new home including the Oval Office and the Cabinet room. "He was so gracious," said Glavine. "He said: 'If you don't mind, I'd like to show you around.' We were looking at each other like: 'Are you kidding me?'" Though the conversation touched occasionally on issues of the day - such as the gunman captured that morning outside the White House gates - there...
...transition is actually two character tests, one public, one personal--the one we praise and the one we really watch. We celebrate the peaceful transition of power in a democracy; and then we sit back and judge how the players perform--how graceful the losers, how gracious the winners, a fierce pageant of patriotism and pride and prejudice all tightly staged on the west front of the Capitol. The cameras could barely decide where to go on that rainy Saturday. There was just so much to see: Jim Baker, the smiling Florida gravedigger, greeting Al Gore, the man buried alive...
Engineer Coach Dan Fridgen was decidedly less than gracious in defeat...
...Bush's favor, beginning with a stunning double win on Monday, his allies built their hopes not only of victory but of clarity, that he could start naming a team and setting a tone. The Governor's mansion was decked with holly, and in public Bush sounded increasingly gracious. He felt Gore's pain, he said; he unveiled a transition slogan--"Bringing America Together"; his team took care to drop names of Democrats he might name to a Cabinet, what programs had the best chance of passage through bipartisan seas...
...address, Bush said Gore's second concession was a "gracious call," saying he understood "how difficult this moment must...