Word: tactfulness
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...newspapers, had made it plain in Washington that he wanted an appointment in return. Though he had had no experience in public office, Puerto Ricans were ready to consider him "simpatico" because he was a Roman Catholic and had nine children. But ceremony-loving Puerto Ricans, accustomed to the tact and diplomacy of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the quiet efficiency of Governor James Rumsey Beverley, found it difficult to understand Governor Gore's blunt and open manner. He sought to gain popularity by legalizing cockfighting throughout the island (he signed the bill with a tailfeather...
...eligibility rule, it should be barred from intercollegiate football contests in the future. Mr. Slocum has taken it upon himself to interfere in a situation which should only be treated by those possessing the authority and official standing which he lacks; he has stirred up a touchy question without tact, without the slightest regard toward the practical aspects of the case...
...positively identify its picture of the universe with ultimate reality, that even an approximation is not certain. In the main body of the book the author emphasizes this fact while outlining the present position of scientists in regard to relativity, wave mechanics, the theory of indeterminacy, etc. With excellent tact he has written his outline on two levels, by following up literary exposition with more abstruse mathematical analysis, which is optional reading and will be gratefully skipped by readers whose intelligence is no more capable of following it than this reviewer...
...President thus taken Latin Americans into his confidence on foreign policy. He had asked for no specific support from their Governments but his candor and tact won him a favorable reaction throughout the hemisphere. Two days later Mexico, on its own initiative, asked Argentina, Brazil and Chile to join with it in impressing upon the Cuban Junta the necessity for a law & order government. While President Roosevelt was backing away from intervention diplomatically, his precautionary plans for military action went forward full blast. He did not intend to exert force but if he had to, he was going...
...travel first-class on the Southern Railway because otherwise I should be caught constantly in the middle of a closely-packed carriage. More than once, when travelling 'third' I have had to tight my way out, in a condition approaching frenzy. ..." When the student leaves the indubitable tact of claustrophobia's existence and begins to look for cause & cure, he finds himself adrift in theory. In a letter to the Times, Dr. Harry Campbell, veteran British neurologist, spoke for the older school when he declared that claustrophobia is simply the morbid expression of a universal animal instinct...