Word: tactfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishment-and gratitude. One woman, flabbergasted as a solicitous postal employee repacked a badly parceled piece of mail, could only stammer, "Danke, danke." In Bavaria, a local department store took Behörde und Bürger to heart and started its own courtesy campaign. The wave of Teutonic tact even seems to be paying dividends for the civil servants. Says one graduate of the postal service deportment course: "Somehow, I feel much less insecure...
...already a Member of Parliament and a Cabinet minister, amid great predictions that their marriage would last six months. It lasted for 57 years, and Winston called it "the most fortunate and joyous event" of his life. During his long exile in the political wilderness, her intelligence, her tact and her faith in him made her the perfect foil for his tempestuous outbursts and black depressions. The mother of five (only two survive: Actress Sarah Churchill and Mary Soames, wife of Diplomat Christopher Soames), she accompanied her husband on wartime missions abroad, even on late-night inspections of London during...
BEDROOM SCENES demand tact on the part of the director, and this is one attribute that Darling certainly lacks. The audience can't help feeling that they are watching something that they really do not have any business seeing. After all the moaning and groaning (the most oft-repeated line is "ah...that feels good") it is difficult to believe what is going on between Caroline and Elgin is all that different from the hedonism that Elgin previously renounced...
...most impressive thing about Harvard's effort at curriculum reform has been its success thus far in moving along without serious interruption. Dean Rosovsky and James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and chairman of the task force on the core curriculum, have generally revealed themselves as masters of tact in their desire to avoid setting up the backs of any possible faculty opposition...
...Moscow physics teacher and textbook author, Sakharov recalls his early family life as "cultured and close." From childhood, he says, "I lived in an atmosphere of decency, mutual help and tact, a liking for work and respect for the mastery of one's chosen profession." Young Andrei lost no time in mastering his: by 1942, having graduated with honors in physics from Moscow State University, he went to work in the war industry. After World War II, he studied with the theoretical physicist (and later Nobel laureate) Igor. Tamm. Soon he was at work on the Kremlin...