Word: tactlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netherlands retirement in favor of the royal heir has become expected. Ex-Queen Wilhelmina, still alive and 68, gave way to her daughter Juliana in 1948. If some such shift of the crown from Juliana to Beatrix is now under consideration, no Dutch newspaper was so tactless as to hint...
With reference to Governor Goodwin Knight's comments on President Eisenhower ["This man isn't handsome. He's almost bald"-Jan. 30]: one is reminded of the tactless mother-in-law who, on meeting her new daughter-in-law for the first time, remarked, "Why, you're not at all pretty, are you?" The young bride replied, "No, I am not pretty, so I try to be nice. Have you ever tried that...
...territory that is 13 times the size of France, divided among more than 1,000 tribes speaking 600 different tongues, many of them still so primitive that only five years ago a native elected to the French Senate was murdered and eaten by his Ivory Coast constituents. (Most tactless wisecrack of the week: outgoing Premier Edgar Faure's quip that Guy Mollet had included seven Senators in his government "to keep Houphouet-Boigny well...
...friends, who obviously know his secret, immediately react to this, and say something which in other circumstances would have been considered extremely tactless. Malcolm replies...
...believe in a small community in which nobody can be sad, fall ill, have his birthday, or be tactless, without being consoled, nursed, celebrated or criticized by all ... When we return to Villigst we may be excited about our work, happy about our possible success and achievement. We then feel we need evening prayers as we need our daily bread. In praying, in singing a religious song, in listening to the Bible, we regain our balance. We recognize our limitations, and humbleness before God sets our human pride back into the right perspective...