Word: tactlessness
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...officer's influence and efficiency than untidy habits of dress or deportment. The chaplain's bearing should be smart and alert, his address prompt and to the point... .Some officers, and unfortunately some of them were chaplains, have spoiled otherwise spotless records by saying or doing tactless things. ... It goes without saying that a chaplain should be possessed of personal integrity and exemplary habits, and should be a man of religious experience with pious instincts and a fervor for service. . . . ' Training Manual, U. S. Army, prepared under the direction of the Chief of Chaplains...
...attention to be "slur" upon his name there emerges clear and bright the bottom of the affair. It is obvious that Professor Seavey's comparison of the ex-governor with Chicago's notorious Thompson was an analogy unintended to be malicious. There few men in the teaching profession so tactless and unaware of their position as to harass a living public name openly and directly, especially when the son of that name sits in their classroom...
...opinion that Dr. Kung, in trying to race the Communists to Sian with his Government troops, was likely to upset Kidnapper Chang so much that he would murder her husband instead of joining up with the Dictator in a deal to fight Japan. It was rather tactless for Dr. Kung to say of her husband in an official broadcast by the Acting Premier last week, "While we are all anxious that Generalissimo Chiang may be rescued . . . our attitude is that the personal safety of one man should not be allowed to interfere. . . . It gives one a pain in the heart...
...main thought was to keep his English enemy from, finding out how miserable he was. And as he was virtually breathing his last, the greatest trouble-maker in history could not refrain from sowing a little posthumous dissension: he gave some valuable books to English officers, so that the tactless Lowe, under orders to confiscate all Napoleon's gifts, would get in more trouble trying to take them away...
...scene meanwhile appeared suave Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady and domineering Rear Admiral Harry Hamlet of the new Maritime Commission. Tactless Admiral Hamlet only made things worse, but Mediator McGrady was making real progress when the strike came. Last week there was a split in the shipowners' ranks, as 27 coastwise companies made separate overtures to the longshoremen, the chief Pacific union with which they were concerned since they hire almost all their seamen on the cheaper Atlantic. Deep-sea Pacific shippers still were obliged to consider all maritime unions. With this schism in sight, Harry Bridges...