Word: tactfulness
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Framework for America. Author Fischer recommends endless U.S. patience and tact, coupled with a positive doctrine of thus-far-and-no-farther. "So long as the Soviet leaders believe that an attack from the West is inevitable, they are not going to give up their kind of security.. . . Whether we like it or not, they have set the framework within which America must work out its own policy...
...argument has been made before, sometimes with more tact, sometimes with more violence-never with such a compelling combination of chilling logic and prophetic fire. Everybody will want to disbelieve it. "Fascist warmongering" will "be among the gentler terms applied to it. Only one defense of Burnham's book can be made: it is-appallingly-true...
Hurdles, which are 45 and 60 yard highs and 60 yard lows in indoor tact, have several returnees from last spring's squad in the persons of Henry Kendall and Dave Reed. West Flint, of the 1942 Yardling team, is expected to furnish the backbone in the hurdling department...
...whatever action is taken will consist of squashing labor's freedom of decision by Congressional fiat. The chance that such action will be blocked by Executive veto is lessened by President Truman's propensity for wielding a bludgeon in labor disputes. He and his advisers lack the time and tact to handle the labor question diplomatically and will be only too happy to be handed an even bigger club...
Ever since V-J day, professional politicos had been padding softly behind General Dwight D. Eisenhower. His tremendous reputation, unencumbered by political liabilities, his wonderful nickname, his poise, tact, and amazing popularity made him the perfect presidential candidate. As a professional soldier he had no political commitments. He could run on either ticket.* But no matter how much applause he stirred up, the General consistently, calmly, sometimes humorously denied all political ambition...