Word: tactlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it was Miss Lillian's turn to speak, she sweetly told the audience that if Kennedy runs,"I hope to goodness nothing happens to him. I really do." There was silence at the tactless reference to the Kennedy assassinations. Later Miss Lillian apologized to Carter staffers, who do not need any further mishaps...
...tactless, the secret dream of every European was, one, to avoid a nuclear war but, secondly, if there had to be a nuclear war, to have it conducted over their heads by the strategic forces of the United States and the Soviet Union...
Harrison, Colbert and Rose lend the static scene a picture-book grace, render fitfully amusing lines as if they had been minted by La Rochefoucauld, and are never so tactless as to reveal that, dramatically speaking, their oxygen supply has been cut off. -T.E. Kalem
...machinations that fencers and coaches go through to direct poor, misguided--to say nothing of short-sighted--directors vary from the subtle to the tactless...
...chance that none of the defendants will come to trial, for two reasons: 1) indictment of the Americans might lead to pressures for their extradition-an unlikely prospect; 2) with Italy asking for U.S. loans to shore up the lira, pressing criminal charges against U.S. citizens might seem tactless. But the commission may act against the Americans anyway, if only to diffuse Italian cynicism about politicians and that international symbol of trouble-Lockheed...