Word: graciousness
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Religious hatred of another sort claimed Indira Gandhi, who was gunned down by two of her own Sikh guards in her tamarind-scented garden on a sunny October morn. She had just bid her guards "Namaste," the gracious Indian salutation accompanied by the crossing of hands before the face. Assassination may be the most invidious of terrorist acts, since the consequences can ricochet disastrously through a country and beyond. Mrs. Gandhi's death produced such a tragedy: some 2,000 Indians perished in the flames of sectarian violence that followed...
...thought Leonore Annenberg, President Reagan's chief of protocol, was polite and proper when she curtsied to Prince Charles in 1981. Her gesture was gracious and dignified...
...surgery, raising the one-year survival rate of heart recipients from 65% in the 1970s to 80%. Bailey believed that by focusing on the treatment of newborns, whose immune systems are not yet fully developed, he could further reduce the risks of rejection. Says he: "A newborn is a gracious host...
While still a student at Wellesley, where she claimed to have majored in gracious living, Martin got her first job on the Washington Post. "It was an accident," she says. "My parents wanted me to find a summer job, and I thought the Post would be a safe place to apply, thinking they would never hire me since I had no experience. They hired me as a copy girl-monotonous work with terrible hours and featuring a take-home pay of $27.50 a week and the opportunity to get screamed...
...were talking she said that now she was trying out for the basketball team (her eligibility for that sport remains unaffected), and as I began to thank her for being so gracious, she started to tell me how enthusiastic she was about the soccer team for which she could no longer play...