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Word: tact (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defensive line returns in tact with two All-American candidates, but the rest of the defense was ravaged by graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Road to THE GAME | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

This year Columbia tried a new tact: it hired a tough, new coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Road to THE GAME | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...continue to press its allies to bring export standards into line with the full-scope safeguard concept. That may take time and tact. Says former I.A.E.A. Official Fischer: "There is still suspicion in Western Europe of U.S. motives in pressing for full-scope safeguards." Pressure from Washington is sometimes seen by Europeans as a ploy to improve the U.S. competitive position. Nonetheless, Fischer notes, there has been a "very distinct change" in French export practices over the past decade. U.S. pressure has played a role in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Has the Bomb | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Jane McHugh has earned the tag "Tact and Decorum", or "T&D" for short. "Jane has a habit of saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time--in a cute way," Wilson explains...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Myrtle, Fortuna, and Pigpen Make for a Good Time | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...much pain as enlightenment. In a typical passage, Heaney, who grew up in Northern Ireland, bitterly remembers the Catholic ghetto, and "how quick I was to know my place." In another, he faces the ghost of his cousin Colum, killed in the sectarian violence. "You confused evasion and artistic tact," the murdered man tells him. "The Protestant who shot me through the head/ I accuse directly, but indirectly, you . . . for the way you whitewashed ugliness and drew/ the lovely blinds of the Purgatorio/ and saccharined my death with morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inspirations Station Island | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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