Word: tactfulness
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...school system told his staff after the Supreme Court's decision against school segregation: "It will be my purpose to implement that decision with no effort to sidestep, no effort by subterfuge or sharp practices to defeat the purpose of the court," launched a campaign with such tact and perseverance that Louisville schools, from kindergarten through high school, were completely integrated in 1956 without a touch of violence; of a heart attack; in Louisville...
...suave and courtly Georgian, "Red" Dowling, 54, is known around the world for his aplomb and tact. He has a wide firsthand knowledge of Europe (he had been slated for the post of Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until Murphy announced his resignation) and is thoroughly familiar with the problems of West Germany in particular, having served in Bonn for three years (1953-56), first as Deputy High Commissioner, later as Minister of the U.S. embassy. German-fluent Ambassador Dowling is equally at home with aging chiefs of state. In his most recent post, as Ambassador to Korea...
...American State Department has handled the whole affair to date with a tact and tolerance that it would not have shown in the days of Dulles' "agonizing reappraisal." How long this restraint will last is difficult to say. De Gaulle can be allowed to have his way on the dates and places of conferences; but if grandeur starts interfering with serious Western policy, obviously the United States must, however reluctantly, put the French in their place...
Such a balancing, however, seems an unstable equilibrium; it depends very much on a great deal of restraint and tact by both the opponents of religion and the advocates...
...when the 1932 Bonus Army marched on the Capitol; in Laguna Beach, Calif. A combat general in World War I, Glassford faced the sternest test of his career when 11,000 ragged, jobless veterans descended on Washington to demand bonuses not due them until 1945. He controlled them with tact and courage while Congress marked time, dug $773 out of his own pocket to buy them food...