Word: tactlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that McNiel read the story at 2 a.m. But after perusing the article, McNiel said that although it seemed somewhat tactless, it was a good story and would show students that "HYRC was really doing something." He offered not a single objection...
...Manhattan to take over direction of the Metropolitan Opera next June, British Impresario Rudolf Bing told newsmen that the Met was "in excellent shape as far as vocal talent goes," but declined to be drawn out about its notoriously outdated scenery and production. Explained Bing: "It would be rather tactless of me to be critical...
Tired and rumpled as any returning tourist, tactless Harry Vaughan stepped off a banana boat in New York last week after a vacation in Guatemala, and promptly put his foot in his mouth. The day was hot and so was he, but a reporter managed to tag him for a brief interview. The reporter wanted to know about his connections with James V. Hunt, the Washington "five percenter," who had said Vaughan was a close friend (TIME, July...
None of this was accomplished without Bowron's tramping on sensitive toes; he made scores of enemies. He was accused of being arbitrary, tactless and indecisive, and was variously described as 'Chubby Cheeks," "Fumbling Fletch," and "Bottleneck Bowron." He was even attacked by Cafeteria Owner Clifford Clinton, a vociferous reformer and the man who spent $72,000 to put Bowron into office. "Drab . . . colorless ... far from inspiring . . ." cried Clinton. "We were misled . . ." Clinton ran against him;-and lost...
...Truman legislation was wrapped up in the Lesinski bill, named after the House Labor Committee's tactless chairman, John Lesinski, a labor Congressman from Michigan since 1933. The Lesinski bill would 1) repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, 2) reinstate the Wagner Act with a few slightly stiffening changes. One of the changes was a wispy device for handling national emergency strikes by setting up presidential boards of inquiry and requiring a 30-day "cooling-off period...