Word: tactful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heavy Harness. A big, robust man, Ismay has the tact and shrewdness needed for NATO's new job. He, himself, in a House of Lords speech last year, was searchingly critical of NATO's unwieldy complexity: "Rather a lot of harness and not much horse," he called it. "I believe there is a hiatus at the summit...
...Democratic Administration's Dean Acheson led off with a tribute to two eminent Republicans. "Far-reaching . . . forward-looking," said the Secretary, of Douglas MacArthur's leadership in Japan. "Greatest skill, greatest persistence, greatest tact," he said, of John Foster Dulles' role in negotiating the treaty...
...small (5 ft. 5½ in.), pink-cheeked man who wears a button-front sweater with his Brooks Brothers suit, Shawn has a reputation for politeness and tact that is almost as legendary as Ross's volcanic temper. "No one," says a friend, "has yet gotten through a door behind him." Editor Shawn never swears or raises his voice. He works up to 14 hours a day as quietly as a bank clerk, carries home a pile of work to his Fifth Avenue apartment. For relaxation, he plays hot jazz on the piano and reads four or five books...
...Open Burner. During World War II, Spilsbury became virtually an "isolated" man, a "living legend." In 1940 he was shaken up by a stroke, stunned by his son Peter's death. Students and young doctors spoke of his kindness and tact, but his work among the dead had taken him so far away from the living that he had few close friends. He lived alone in a hotel, where other residents tried occasionally to consult him about their ailments. He used to answer that "when they were dead he would cut them up and tell them what...
...British appointed a new High Commissioner to take his place: tall, lean, Anglo-Irish Sir Gerald Templer, one of the scrappiest fighters and toughest administrators in the British army. Winston Churchill had him fly the Atlantic to be looked over before being given a job which will require tact as well as toughness...