Word: tactlessness
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What in heaven's name is happening to this country? Is every editor and everybody-not excluding McCarthy's nonstop idiocies and Eisenhower's latest fiasco in the tactless gift of a pistol to General Naguib-all hellbent on the suicidal lunacy of showing just how cheap and silly...
Spectacular Complaint. Stamler carried out his orders with tactless vigor. He slammed 100 gamblers, including Big Shots Frank Erickson and Joe Adonis, into jail, and got indictments against a score of others, including three highly placed cops and a former Bergen County prosecutor. Amidst this furor, Bergen Gangster Willie Moretti was mysteriously killed (at the orders, according to Stamler's hints, of politicians who were afraid he would talk). But Willie, according to testimony, did not die before making one spectacular complaint: he had given $286,000 to a smalltime statehouse aide named Harold John Adonis...
...France, said he, had a right "to seek some relief [from] our allies" in Indo-China. There were "grave difficulties" to be faced in foreign trade. October had set new production records, and November had topped October. From the left a Communist rose to heckle Pinay, and made a tactless sneer at Pinay's leather business...
...opposed to German participation in the general staff. Let them give us soldiers, nothing more." The French Foreign Ministry hurriedly denied that he had said such a tactless thing. In view of Herriot's opposition and Pinay's lukewarm support, ratification by the French Parliament is still possible, but chancier than ever...
...rest of the patients, and even those who are discharged from the hospital, the operation may be too "successful.'" Free from anxiety, they may become, instead, irresponsible, tactless, indolent. They will probably have trouble making up their minds, and may hear voices or echoes. Worse than that, some may regress into placid animals, helpless for the rest of their lives...