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Word: tactfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even more annoyed by Philadelphia's finest, who are dressed in their finest, who have lapel pins and plastic ear coils and who don't hold a candle to the Secret Service when it comes to politeness, tact and physical fitness. But I love the cops. I mean, they stood their ground this week when zany and stupid protestors tried to provoke them...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life in a Parking Lot | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...round this baldly shaven fact One must step with little tact: An older woman had outrun A 100-meter champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 24, 2000 | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

Always playing with the crowd, Guster's final song was inspired by a cardboard sign reading "MONA LISA," a track from their first album _Parachute_. Perhaps proving the tact of the decision to keep Brian behind the bongos rather than the mike, Ryan relinquished his position of lead vocals for most of the song. While Brian's rather off-key voice had more than a slight waver, the crowd didn't hesitate to sing right along with this unexpected lead, capping off a great night. Any questions about the appropriateness of the Run-Guster combination, it seemed, had been...

Author: By Laura Ditchell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Odd Couple | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...dean needs vision, tact, persuasiveness and an enthusiastic commitment to undergraduate education," Knowles says...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Historian Pedersen to Assume Amorphous but Powerful College Post | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

With his bull neck and broad shoulders, Yoshiro Mori looks more like a rugby player than a politician. He is perceived as an overcautious, scandal-tainted back-room dealer with no discernible ideology, little international experience and zero tact. In recent months, he has managed to insult Americans, Okinawans, Osakans, AIDS sufferers and teachers. As for political courage, even friends say he has the heart of a flea. All of which makes Mori, 62, an ideal Prime Minister--at least in the eyes of the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, which last week chose him to replace the incapacitated Keizo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: When Mori May Be Less | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

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