Last night, two of the goals he allowed, Nattress's seventh and Yushkevich's fourth, were what hockey people politely term "on the soft side."

After what he politely termed "a difficult time," he went on to become one of only 14 Japanese-American soldiers in a 3,000-member unit called Merrill's Marauders, destroying Japanese supply and communications lines in and around Burma.

Elves have great respect for their elders, however, and therefore Calandra would politely term the house "her father's."

Domestic Uses of Foreign Aid When President Bush announced that the world's wealthiest countries would give Russia $24 billion in aid, Japan politely termed Mr. Bush's figures "hypothetical."

That's when I got a line on the inadequacy, as you politely term it, of the Longwood police.

Unlike Mr. Adrover, Richard Chai has a biography that one might politely term humdrum; he was raised in suburban New Jersey and graduated from Parsons.

The announcers politely termed it a brushback pitch.

Elisabeth Malartre found my many Homeric nods, as we politely term them.

Every few weeks a team of economists from the International Monetary Fund shows up in Moscow to determine if Mr. Primakov has put together what they politely term a "realistic" budget.