Word: tactfulness
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...helicopter flew him into Tel Aviv Thursday night to pay a condolence call at Leah Rabin's apartment. Arafat told Mrs. Rabin that her husband was a "hero of peace" and a "dear friend." She responded that "Yitzhak saw in you, Mr. Arafat, a partner in making peace." If tact forbade either to mention what both well knew--that Rabin had brought himself only with the utmost reluctance to shake Arafat's hand--well, good manners are not the least important ingredient in peacemaking...
Getting ATF agents to open up about their lives and work required unusual tact and tenacity. "There was a great fear of retaliation by the ATF management," he says. After two months of travel, scores of interviews and a stack of documents piled knee high in his office, he delivered a penetrating look at an agency at war not with the militias but with itself...
...admire Taylor for the sublime tact of his writing; no one's behavior, however bizarre, causes a ripple in Nathan's gentle but exacting account. The problem lies with Aubrey. He repudiates the Tuckers and the hypocrisy that kept him a true outsider. "Compromise," he intones. "That's their rule of life." And he blames Nathan for being "part of the world he was born into...
...cards this morning. After grabbing some cereal with his hands, he began kicking the box, scattering little round corn puffs across the room. Next he turned his attention to the TV set, or rather, the table supporting it. The table was covered with a checkerboard Con-Tact paper, and Dusty began peeling it off. Then he became intrigued with the spilled cereal and started stomping it to bits. At this point his mother interceded. In a firm but calm voice she told her son to get the stand-up dust pan and broom and clean up the mess. Dusty...
...unctuousness), they make sure we are amused often and always at the right moments. If Nichols had less skill, we would crack up when the moon is full and Nicholson's stunt double starts leaping around the countryside, but using low light and slow motion, the director displays great tact in those passages...