Word: graciousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increased warmth and understanding between the U.S. and India. She and the President decided during the week that they were going roughly in the same direction and that they could accomplish things together without making demands on each other. Mrs. Gandhi proved to be not only "a very proud, gracious and very able lady," as the President called her, but a fiercely independent ruler with a determination to equal his own. As if to illustrate that independence, she flew off from London in a Soviet plane to visit Russia's rulers in Moscow before returning to India...
...first members were personally selected by the Master from applicants desiring to leave their more traditional houses. They represented, through scholarships, campus offices and activities, a most vigorous kind of individual. For them, Quincy obviously fulfilled its purpose; because it was new, Quincy provided an escape from the gracious gentility imposed on them by the older Houses. It provided a place for the experimental, adventurous type who wished to be free of conformity to a given style...
...month-long Caribbean tour. And so she came. As the royal yacht Britannia docked at the jetty, nearly all 13,000 Nevisians were dancing in the streets. Then with endless royal waves, Elizabeth and Prince Philip drove off through the cotton and sugarcane fields to pay a gracious call at the birthplace of one of the Crown's less loyal subjects-Alexander Hamilton...
...distinct personality, a warmth. Dependable, forgiving, attentive, gracious and benevolent." What sounds like a paraphrase of the Boy Scout oath is the authors' sentimental tribute to an airplane, the DC-3, the twin-engine, 190 m.p.h. prop-driven craft that first flew 30 years ago and has entered Valhalla under its own power. Of the 10,000 built from 1936 to 1946, some 5,000 are still in the air, faithfully serving 174 airlines in 70 countries. In the heart of the jet age, the DC-3 still accounts for nearly one-third of the world...
...another historian, I commend you for honoring the craft with your cover story on Arthur Schlesinger [Dec. 17]. I, too, would plump for activism because of its merit to the interpreter of history. However, there is a factor in such associations that Schlesinger fails to emphasize. That is the gracious receptivity of men such as his President and my Governor to interloping historians. Access is the key to effective political participation and observation, and Kennedy and Scranton have literally opened their offices to public scrutiny...