Word: tactfulness
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...ability to raised crushed spirits has not gone unnoticed. "She's some-one of extraordinary tact," says Kalstone, referring also to her dual job as Hughes's personal secretary...
...businesswomen make ever deeper inroads into Thailand's commerce, they exercise great tact and diplomacy in dealing with their men. They take the position, in fact, that behind every successful businesswoman is a loving helpmate...
Even if Sargent's words represent more than political tact, there are good reasons for believing that the DPW is intent on selecting the Brook-line-Elm Street route--the one that would wipe out 1000 to 1500 families and run right next to Central Square. First, it has been the route long championed by his agency. Second, plans for this route are farther along than for any other. And third, any other realistic alternative would run along the fringe of the M.I.T. campus; the political power of M.I.T., a venus flytrap for federal research contracts, is latent, but great...
...presented by the tousle-haired young applicant. "Nein," said he. After all, would a violinist treat his instrument that way? It was a bad moment for the awkward Hessian farmer's son until he remembered a good school in Karlsruhe on the Rhine. There the examiner, with more tact, looked over the madcap paintings on cardboard, asked, "Do you really think we ought to take you?" "With my talent," the youth burst...
...follow the incident with another indiscretion? That is what Dean Munro did by entering the guilty student's room without first asking his permission or even waiting for his return. The Dean was within his legal rights, as outlined in the College's room contracts. But legality and tact do not always coincide. In an emergency the Administration may have to ignore the sensibilities of a student. This was, however, not such a case...