Word: tactfulness
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...same time, Lemay organized and trained a creditable chorus of 250 voices and a Junior Symphony of 90 members. Duluth feels the orchestra would have died a natural death in Flaaten's barn except for the enthusiasm, patience, tact, humor and musical ability of Paul Lemay...
Thus the U.S. still has a whale of a job to do in South American aviation. For want of a little more tact and a few more planes the whole Good Neighbor policy is being chipped and scarred. Whatever the State Department finally decides to do, U.S. aviation insiders have a fast, simple solution: give South American airlines 15 to 25 huge transports right away. With this equipment U.S. lines would have a better chance to keep down Axis competition and give South Americans the finest airline service ever...
...them with no special training beyond his 20 years as a newspaper correspondent in Europe and the East. "I am an authority on general information" he told his Jap employers, and left it at that. He made a point of plain speaking to his bosses, combining truth with tact and he got along well with the diplomats, being, in his own archaic phrase, "in nowise timorous and also capable of jest...
...mountain troops in the first battle of Champagne (1915), he captured an important French position, forced a whole French brigade to retire. (Reward: Pour le Mérite, highest Prussian military decoration.) In 1917 Rommel distinguished himself against the Italians at the Isonzo. Recently the Germans, with characteristic tact, reminded their World War II allies by stating, in a radio sketch of his life, that Rommel "captured 9,000 Italian troops in less than half an hour...
...mountain troops in the first battle of Champagne (1915), he captured an important French position, forced a whole French brigade to retire. (Reward: Pour le Mérite, highest Prussian military decoration.) In 1917 Rommel distinguished himself against the Italians at the Isonzo. Recently the Germans, with characteristic tact, reminded their World War II allies by stating, in a radio sketch of his life, that Rommel "captured 9,000 Italian troops in less than half an hour...