Word: tactfulness
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...wife, to report a more astonishing possibility: that Lord Beaverbrook may succeed Eden at the Foreign Office. Growled the Post: "Lord Beaverbrook's dynamic energies have more than once rendered the country valuable services, but he has never displayed a great interest in the affairs of Europe, and tact in negotiation is not commonly regarded as one of his outstanding gifts...
...conduct of education is not an international matter. . . . The job of carrying educational ideas across national frontiers . . . requires considerable tact, sympathy and experience. . . . With the exception of the most obvious cases, a foreigner cannot tell whether teaching is warlike or not. Of course, it is plain in the goose step, the maps, the warlike mottoes: but when it comes to the more delicate emphases, the problem is so difficult [as to be] impossible...
...been likable kid plays (e.g., the current Kiss and Tell) that have left a young girl's reputation hanging on a hickory limb, only to show in the end that she didn't go near the water. Such plays are made ingratiating by the author's tact and talent. But Wallflower's playwrights are unfortunately lacking in real...
...UNRRA's hardest job: to find men who combine technical knowledge with tact...
...Secretary, Ponsonby had two chief functions: to present the Queen's opinions to the Government; to present the Government's opinions to the Queen. To succeed in both functions at once was almost impossible, but Sir Henry Ponsonby made a career of tact. The Queen had a virulent hatred of what she termed the "communistic" fantasies of "desperate radicals"-by which she meant Home Rule for Ireland, Reform of the House of Lords and her Liberal arch-antagonist and recurrent Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone was at once a passionate monarchist, reformer, and pillar of brazen endurance...