Word: tactfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Midwife in Boots. The Molotov note was a victory for chunky, trap-jawed John Hodge, who had won at Guadalcanal and Okinawa victories more suited to his soldier's temperament. No diplomat, Hodge had made his mistakes in Korea. But what he lacked in subtlety and tact, Hodge made up in tenacity. He grasped the essentials of the Korean problem. Three months ago, he returned to Washington, steamed in & out of offices telling officials that if the Russians would not play ball, then the U.S. must organize its zone of Korea so effectively that, when the occupying armies pulled...
Framework for America. Author Fischer recommends endless U.S. patience and tact, coupled with a positive doctrine of thus-far-and-no-farther. "So long as the Soviet leaders believe that an attack from the West is inevitable, they are not going to give up their kind of security.. . . Whether we like it or not, they have set the framework within which America must work out its own policy...
...argument has been made before, sometimes with more tact, sometimes with more violence-never with such a compelling combination of chilling logic and prophetic fire. Everybody will want to disbelieve it. "Fascist warmongering" will "be among the gentler terms applied to it. Only one defense of Burnham's book can be made: it is-appallingly-true...
Hurdles, which are 45 and 60 yard highs and 60 yard lows in indoor tact, have several returnees from last spring's squad in the persons of Henry Kendall and Dave Reed. West Flint, of the 1942 Yardling team, is expected to furnish the backbone in the hurdling department...
...whatever action is taken will consist of squashing labor's freedom of decision by Congressional fiat. The chance that such action will be blocked by Executive veto is lessened by President Truman's propensity for wielding a bludgeon in labor disputes. He and his advisers lack the time and tact to handle the labor question diplomatically and will be only too happy to be handed an even bigger club...