Word: graciousness
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McCurdy noted that Cornell was a gracious host, going so far as to provide a crimson shack to shelter the team from the blustery weather...
...brass has been polished, the draperies lovingly arranged, the superb craftsmanship of the antique furnishings set off by careful burnishing. At the very least one gets from the film an authentic sense of life as it must have been lived in a more gracious and perhaps more innocent time...
After winning last year's U.S. Open and this year's Wimbledon, she has regained her top ranking from Tracy Austin. Some day one of her three-month breaks will stretch into a genuine retirement, and tennis will lose a great and gracious champion. But right now Chris Evert Lloyd is at the top of her game-and not ready to yield. "I've been in the public eye since I was 16, and that's hard. But when you struggle with something and come through, it means more. It means more now when...
Singapore Airlines has long been known for its elegant, poised stewardesses, whose teeth and manners are polished by company-paid dentists and the airline's own training school. Last week S.A. became known for something a little less gracious: high-altitude gambling. An S.A. 747 jumbo jet took off from Singapore, bound for San Francisco, with one row of tourist-class seats filled not with paying passengers but with six slot machines...
...visit, the Egyptian leader detoured to Plains, Ga., to see his "deep friend." The reunion was all harmony and grits. Out on the old softball field, with Rosalynn and Jehan looking on, Jimmy presented Sadat with a glass sculpture of a laurel wreath. Sadat was at his gracious best, although Carter's detractors will doubtless delight in misconstruing his words. Said he: "Jimmy Carter has left his fingerprints on the history...