Word: tactless
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...President wrote him a blistering, tactless reply...
...last five years he has been a conscientious Ambassador to Mexico. Although he was sometimes tactless, Mexican officials approved...
...just around the corner. The U.S. Military Government felt the seasonal compulsion, and broke out with bright buds of optimism. First, Colonel Frank L. Howley, governor of Berlin's U.S. sector, heartily hailed the "unqualified success" of the joint occupation during its first six months, cheerily added the tactless and probably inaccurate boast that the U.S. now was the most influential power in Berlin. Hard on Howley's heels, General Joseph T. McNarney, commander of U.S. forces in Europe, reported that food stocks in the U.S. zone were surprisingly ample...
...they had so little to show for such a fuss. Moscow said that it had recalled the offending military attaché, Colonel Nikolai Zabotin, "in view of the inadmissibility of the activities" of members of his staff. The secrets he got were not very good ones, Moscow added in tactless vexation, because they could be found in published works, including the "well-known pamphlets of the American Smyth." Quipped one wit: "The Russians complain the diamonds are paste...
...many unhappy in what they were doing, nearly all of them worried about the future. Almost to a man they had walked out on the Army-run Manhattan Project and its boss, paunchy Major General Leslie R. Groves, whom most of the scientists regarded as a blustering, tactless, fanatically secretive militarist...