Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Morrow considers his own manners an irreproachable model of civility, he admits certain doubts about politesse between the sexes. For example, he exercises special caution at the entrance of his apartment building. "The doors there are quite heavy, and I hold them open for anyone following me, male or female. There are still some women, however, who feel no obligation to hold those doors for me, and so they let them swing back and whack me in the face...
...secretary makes them. It is insufferable one-upmanship to have a secretary chirp, "Please hold for Mr...." Baldrige offers a fairly quaint line for use in getting rid of a pest on the phone: "My staff informs me an emergency call is waiting for me on the other line. Please forgive me, and put in writing the rest of your thoughts." She is less than enthusiastic about recorded music being piped in to entertain a caller who is put on hold...
...wrote automatically. The notes were done by rote and said nothing. Now they may be fewer, but they mean more." Dr. Alfred Messer of Atlanta cheerfully tells a story of going to eat lunch at his hospital's dining room some months ago. "I instinctively stood up to hold the chair of a woman colleague who had carried her sandwich over to the table. She almost cracked me in the face!" Charlotte Ford insists that she still likes the old chivalry?doors opened, cigarettes lighted. "Men are still men," she says, "the tougher of the two sexes. It's nice...
...wise for Treasury Secretaries to check in regularly with the Saudis and discuss politely whatever financial problems may come up. On his weekend visit, Blumenthal pleaded with the Saudis to hold down any increase in oil prices that OPEC may decree next month. The U.S. is resigned to a 5% to 10% boost, but fears that a larger raise would damage a fragile world economy. The Saudis have been muttering about how nice it would be if the U.S. would sell them bonds with an exchange-rate guarantee that could be redeemed for more than their face value...
...Saudis are also painfully aware that they lack experience investing gigantic sums of money. As recently as 1974, SAMA was headed by a Pakistani. The first Saudi to hold the post, Qoreishi is a graduate of U.S.C., but he had no previous banking experience. Western diplomats who deal with them say the Saudis fear that if they go into long-term investments they will be conned by fast-talking flimflam artists. Richard Erb, an economist who once watched Saudi policy for the U.S. Treasury, adds that the Saudis will not buy gold because they are afraid of being seen...