Word: tactful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trusted lieutenant of majority leader Johnson, he plumbed shifting sentiments on bills, relayed the party line, and prodded the recalcitrant. He knew where to find all the legislative snags and how to use craft and tact to steer around them. As an intermediary in the legislative process, he felt the pressures of various outside lobbyists upon him. Baker knew how to manipulate these interests to achieve the desired ends. Because of this instinct, Baker became an indispensable and trusted instrument of party policy. The subtle and not so subtle use of influence was a game Baker played with the finesse...
...justify the bridge, the Coop has simply insisted that it is vitally necessary, and added that without a bridge the whole undertaking--with all its accompanying tax benefits to the City--might have to be reconsidered. At best, this stance shows a failure to understand the importance of tact in public relations...
Most controversial of all, he advocated the abolition of the death penalty. Peabody pushed too hard and with too little tact for his program. As a result, most of it was defeated in the legislature...
Most of all, Davis shows tact and imagination as an adviser of actors. He spurs the phlegmatic Finch to a thoughtful portrait of the middle-aged man attempting simultaneously to play papa and pitch woo. And he gentles the excitable Tushingham into a performance of wonderful precision and variety...
...ters into the colon, which then empties both urine and feces into a "wet colostomy" bag. After more conventional operations for rectal cancer that has not spread widely, only fecal matter passes through the "dry colostomy" opening in the abdominal wall, because the bladder and urethra are left in tact. Since no two patients' diseases are alike, Brunschwig operations vary in the number of organs and length of bowel removed...