Word: tactful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adenauer, the unilateralist leanings of an important segment of the British Labour Party, the bitterness of France or of Belgium over its allies' behavior in U.N. debates on colonialism, are all powerful influences on the workings of NATO. Kennedy must be ready to roll a lot of oranges, for tact has become the most useful virtue the U.S. can cultivate in dealing with its best and oldest friends...
...have had a great deal of experience with him." Bob Taft's succinct characterization of Chester Bowles gets general approval despite the fact that over a period of 20 years, Bowles has plowed through a long series of jobs that generally require the soft, sure touch of tact. What he lacked in the diplomat's pouch of tact, he made up for with a bottomless bag of ideas, a gift of gab and unswerving earnestness for his causes...
...Home (by Tad Mosel) reshapes for the stage the late James Agee's extraordinary Pulitzer prizewinner, A Death in the Family. The undertaking could not but be hazardous: beyond the tact that Agee's novel was not quite finished and not quite a novel, what made it memorable was the highly personal charge of the writing- fine special sharpness of detail and as uncanny a gift of memory as of metaphor. And what the book had. in the absence of all unity of form, was marked unity of feeling. Considering how much A Death lacked that the theater...
...medieval children's crusade a spirit common with the "Peace Corps" plan. The reference was not meant mockingly, but, taken as a mark of disdain, it suggests a real danger. Membership in a "Peace Corps" calls for roughing it without complaint, for adapting to a strange cultural environment with tact and grace, for representing one's country both honestly and positively. This is work for neither a child nor a wild-eyed crusader. When abroad, these U.S. youth must, indeed, as Melady repeatedly said, "take the ball and run it across the goal line," but in order to score...
...would henceforth be green. Three years after his exile to the Soviet embassy in Outer Mongolia, the Kremlin last week announced that former Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. ("The Hammer") Molotov was being brought back to represent Russia on the International Atomic Energy Agency in gay Vienna. With characteristic tact, the Russians chose to break the news on the 21st anniversary of the day Molotov signed the 1939 non-aggression treaty between Russia and Nazi Germany...