Word: tact
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...otherwise excellent supervisor who spoils his performance by a bullying lack of tact with subordinates. Since his behavior is adolescent, the prescription was to treat him as an adolescent, with firmness and support, and allow him to let off steam against his own superior with no fear of counterattack...
...This story," according to the publicity come-on, "was filmed on location . . . inside a woman's soul!" Director Daniel (Come Back, Little Sheba) Mann, with the help of a sharp script by Helen Deutsch and Jay Richard Kennedy, gets around inside his subject with tact and agility. Susan Hayward plays her part right up to the cork; she can make the audience see not only the horror of the heroine's life but the rye humor of it, too. Jo Van Fleet is even more accomplished and convincing as the sort of stage mother who rides a child...
...University may be able to obtain federal funds to defray the cost of Shannon Hall construction in 1950, if the federal government's defense budget for 1956 is passed in tact by Congress. The six point program would provide for government grants to help pay for any ROTC construction since...
...acclamation. Apparently, the present Premier, Moshe Sharett, also a member of Mapai, was all set to step aside for Ben-Gurion, who is presently Defense Minister in Sharett's Cabinet. Now, if Ben-Gurion does try to form a government, he will need all his tact (which is in short supply) even to achieve a stable governing coalition. Mapai got 39 of the Knesset's 120 seats, compared to 45 in the last election. The Herut, successor to the terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi, was now the second largest party in the Knesset, an upset that was widely regarded...
...whispers convincingly of the lofty world and divine forms that Virgil more robustly describes. Whether Villon is picturing the morning sun or a fertile valley at evening (opposite), he excites the observer's memory and imagination to fill out and give weight to the scene. He has the tact not merely to show his meaning but to share...