Word: tactfulness
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...said of him (in Latin): "The truth is he himself showed such an example of kindly wisdom, such a combination of serious purpose, humanity and courtesy that the others soon had no thought in their minds save to labor with one common will for the success of all." His tact, humor and sincerity prompted a British novelist to say: "No American visiting this country has had his unfailing gift of saying the right thing at the right time...
...difficulty of remedying this situation is less apparent than the need that something be done. Artistic endeavours led by aesthetes generally turn out to be failures from which audiences turn politely. Businessmen produce Songs of Norway. It takes tact and talent to produce artistically valuable theatre and keep it going. In this the New England Opera Theatre is singularly fortunate in its leadership...
...with no reputation for tact, Monty acquitted himself nobly. At West Point he studied a practice session of the Army football squad. "I hope your team wins all its matches," he ventured. "Your West Point," he commented later, "is absolutely the cat's whiskers...
...refused to supply men to sit on the Government's "control board" supervising nationalization. Dryly, the Economist explained the reason why: "It may clear a man's mind wonderfully to know that he is to be hanged in the morning, but it shows some want of tact to expect him to tie the noose." After months of scrapping and haggling with the steel industry, Minister of Supply Wilmot announced sharp curtailment of the authority of the "control board": henceforth it will supervise renovation of the steel industry but will not plan for nationalization...
Made cautious and cannier by previous backfires, Harry Truman last week showed what he could do to bring the Army & Navy together on the merger issue. By good generalship, unwonted tact and better tactics he brought his warring legions into line...