Word: tactfulness
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...salute to the supreme tact and diplomacy of Ernest Bevin who, alone of all the King's Ministers, wears the striped trousers of the Tories and the short coat of the workingman [TIME, Sept...
...Russians I talked to ... apologized for not treating us with vodka, because, as they said, they used it all up. I could easily believe it. They kept steering our "social" conversation towards political subjects, but always stayed within the limits of tact and good diplomacy. . . . They seem to have a maximum of self-confidence as a military force...
...payoff was that Casey hadn't finished that issue yet. It took all his tact to get the magazine back before he could take off again...
...time after Sicily the Army was about ready to scrap the airborne divisions; even some of its most progressive commanders feared that a division was too unwieldy a unit to jump and glide. Ridgway and the other airborne men had to summon all their powers of tact and persuasion. In the end they prevailed, and the divisions survived to undergo the test of D-day in Normandy...
...with a sweeping challenge : "Foreign airfields must be delivered to us or they must not exist in Egypt." Behind his bravado was the Premier's knowledge that a joint Anglo-Egyptian company was in the making to operate Egypt's airfields after the war. With well-timed tact the British Government had sent King Farouk his handsomest birthday gift: a twin-engined, air-conditioned cabin plane from the Royal Air Force...