Word: tactfulness
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Because the nonmalignant fibroid, or fibromyoma, of the uterus is by far the commonest tumor among women, says Dr. Frank, "the health, happiness and future morale of many a patient will rest on the tact, insight and kindliness with which the attending physician . . . enlightens her about [its] presence ... An incautious 'You have large fibroids . . . which must come out at once' may produce panic and ... in due time she will find an operator willing to mutilate her without valid indications." In the same issue of the Journal...
...this, Churchill's diplomacy is a superb combination of tact and inexorable firmness. While never forgetful of the President's constitutional limitations, Churchill also never forgets that such limitations might well prove fatal. "The President should bear . . . very clearly in mind," he instructs British Ambassador Lord-Lothian, that the U.S. cannot afford "any complacent assumption . . . that they will pick up the debris of the British Empire . . ." His own remarks to Roosevelt are sometimes genially humble ("I am so grateful to you for all the trouble you have been taking . . ."), sometimes confidently flattering ("I am sure that, with your...
...With tact, firmness, sympathy and inexhaustible good humor, he had prodded and pushed France's middleway government toward a balanced budget. He was urging more efficient tax collecting, more efficient production techniques. His staff had calculated that a rationalization of methods could increase output by 10% to 15% without longer working hours or new equipment. Impressed, the French government planned to set up a "national center of productivity," to send 1,500 executives, engineers and workers to study methods in the U.S. (the Communists had so far blocked these plans). Ahead lay other plans for reorientation of France...
...understand, and even harder to admire. It had been a shoddy performance all around. The Administration had promised to fight for civil rights for Negroes, but Harry Truman had gone fishing in Florida, and his Senate majority leader, Scott Lucas, had put on an inept show, bellicose when tact was required, weak and confused when strength was called for. The Republicans had nailed civil rights into their party platform, but a majority of Senate Republicans had used a quibble over rules to keep civil rights from coming to a vote. The filibustering Southern Democrats had hollered over the holy rights...
...Always Swore . . ." The armistice agreement was in large part due to the immense ability, patience, tact and unflagging good humor of Ralph Bunche, Negro social scientist (A.B., University of California at Los Angeles; Ph.D., Harvard) who had taken over the role of martyred Count Folke Bernadotte. Several times during the seven weeks of negotiations, agreement had seemed hopeless. Each time Dr. Bunche had thought of something to keep the talks alive. By last week, the negotiators on both sides had come to regard him as a new colossus of Rhodes...