Word: tactfulness
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...made it his increasingly dangerous business to protect, to convey to England, to reserve from war's destruction both in body and spirit. En route they endured every mechanism of debacle from delayed trains to a strafing, and old Mr. Howard managed his charges with exquisite kindness and tact...
...Tact Act. In Westport, Conn., an entomologist urged in the interests of amity that the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) be called...
...expected to use that power warily, being careful to observe the law of the district in which he serves, and to handle drunk and disorderly service men with some degree of tact. In addition to his World War I job of sniffing out spies and saboteurs, he now has to turn out for riot duty and plant protection, which means tossing out defense strikers with neatness and dispatch. He is charged with safeguarding Army property, trained to man age traffic, both civilian and military. To keep him in fettle, he is drilled in wrestling, boxing and jujitsu, is supposed...
...organized effort they must make if FORTUNE'S view of the U.S. task is right. If the editors are right the task of organization is the greatest in human history. Distilled out of all the articles, the figures, the guesses, the proposals, the task demands great strength, great tact and patience...
Author Faulkner, a former WPA official, tells this shabby and pathetic tale with great literary tact, balancing against the slapstick ignorance and innate apathy of his unheroic characters, their deep sense of their own personal dignity, natural courtesy, terrible patience, thwarted honesty. No idealization, Men Working is the most human book that has been written about WPA workers, the saddest and the funniest...