Word: tactfulness
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...armed services (see The New Administration). Between times, he had defined his own political position toward the Republican Party, i.e., loyal but not subservient, and clinched the liberal wing's dominance in his administration. He had met "the Mac Arthur problem" and the "Taft problem" with tact...
...moral obligation to speak up instead of spreading insinuations against his adopted homeland and to violate his promise to act as a good-will messenger when issued his American passport for travel abroad. Of course, the Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann was for literature, not for taste, tact and loyalty...
...feathers in their bonnets. They would usually be willing, if asked to screen out the best prospects and lead the undergraduates to them. Secondly, there should be a close link between the Undergraduate Schools Committee and the Admissions Office, to help students in these areas avoid the pitfalls of tact and judgement that the so common in the recruitment game. Dean Bender's roving recruiters could also follow up good prospects in the underdeveloped areas...
Says Karsh: "It's more of a challenge than portraiture. And it's refreshing to deal with these workers, after all the tact you must use with the famous...
...Tact for le tombeau. France pays her foreign fighters little ($3.89 a month for a recruit, $14.20 for a veteran of five years), and sends them to fight her toughest fights. No U.S.O. benefits or Coca-Cola bottling plants follow the Legion into battle. Old punishments like le tombeau (burial in sand up to the neck without food or water) and la crapaudine (24 hours in the sun with arms and legs tied together behind the back*) are no longer in official use, but discipline is still stern and often meted to a whole company...