Word: tact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real writer down? I have always thought that a real writer, no matter how vague his ultimate aims, is gifted with a shrewd eye for anything that threatens his movements, so that when he meets an obstacle--marriage, debt the army--he will either elude it with great tact or pass through it in a spirit of utter disregard. I doubt there was ever a genuine author who blamed the landscape for his failure. It is only after his heart has left him that he seeks excuses, and then he resorts to them with a relish that most...
Harkins, a onetime cavalryman and deputy chief of staff in World War II to hard-driving General George Patton, was nicknamed "Ramrod" because it was his job to see that Patton's orders were obeyed swiftly and efficiently. Boston-born, Harkins has a reputation for tact and diplomacy as well as drive and discipline, all of which he will need in the job ahead. The U.S. is committed to a three-stage "pacification" program in Viet Nam that calls for 1) anti-guerrilla training and military re-equipment of the Vietnamese army, 2) swift-moving offensive operations against...
According to one leader, the State Department officials "deliberately insulted all of us, and used very little tact. It was obvious that they had not bothered to read our policy statement...
...Culex and Aetna by stutterers: but what they stuttered and twaddled was Latin, not double-Dutch; and great part of it is now double-Dutch and Latin no more ... Here then, between poets capable of much and copyists capable of anything, is a promising field for the exercise of tact and caution; a prudent editor will be slow to emend the text and slow to defend it, and his page will bristle with the obelus. But alas, it is not for specimens of tact and caution that one resorts to the editors of the Culex; it is rather to fill...
...delegation in 1952, was appointed permanent delegate in 1957. Among other key U.N. posts, U Thant this year served concurrently as chairman of the Development Fund, the Congo Conciliation Commission and the Afro-Asian Standing Committee on Algeria. Rejecting Krishna Menon-style neutralism, he has shown moral fiber and tact in his major assignments. He called on the U.N. to maintain law and order in the Congo, worked patiently and discreetly to end the Algerian conflict, backed the U.N. resolution condemning Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian uprising (though, characteristically, he tried to tone down its blistering language...