Word: tactlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editorial pack where Charles de Gaulle and the French Committee of National Liberation are concerned. Judging by what I have recently heard and read, most people cannot see anything of the essential justice of the Fighting French cause, but are completely obsessed with the intractable, choleric, and tactless soldier who heads the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
Although answering our tactless and obvious query, "How do you like the United States?" in a gracious manner, he became more exuberant when he mentioned Peru, for it is still quite apparent that Capt. Higueras longs for his home in Miraflores, a small suburb just outside of Lima. The reason? A beautiful wife (this is not hearsay; reference, his pinup pictures of her) and a three and one-half year...
Thousands of other small, sharp vignettes of approaching action constituted the English scene. All through that scene threaded the sometimes tactless-tongued, sometimes careless, always curious U.S. soldier. The hedged lanes, the pleasant parks, the thatched pubs teemed with G.I. Joes...
...worldly Brendan Bracken, who impressed his listeners by his knowledge of what not to say as well as by what he said, made one tactless slip. Calling onetime No. 2 Nazi Rudolf Hess "a perfect nitwit," he added that he was "an overgrown Boy Scout." Boy Scouts did not like that, and British Boy Scouts formally told...
...will talk over details of equipping the French Army of liberation now forming in North Africa. But General Giraud's trip to America had inevitable political effects. Followers of De Gaulle saw it as a slight to their leader, another mark of official U.S. antipathy to Gaullism, another tactless act that would alienate the French people from...