Word: tact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain troops in the first battle of Champagne (1915), he captured an important French position, forced a whole French brigade to retire. (Reward: Pour le Mérite, highest Prussian military decoration.) In 1917 Rommel distinguished himself against the Italians at the Isonzo. Recently the Germans, with characteristic tact, reminded their World War II allies by stating, in a radio sketch of his life, that Rommel "captured 9,000 Italian troops in less than half an hour...
Earnest Rex Tugwell is not noted for his tact. Gradually the more formal Puerto Ricans began to grumble at his blunt, abrupt handling of affairs. Sugar interests griped at his close association with swart, spaniel-eyed Luis Muñoz Marín, liberal President of the Senate (who once warned his followers forcefully: "Distrust all politicians-even me''). Officials' wives complained that Mrs. Tugwell was aloof...
...ideas, and wrote a book called Chats Behind Bars. Gaunt, hot-tempered, intellectual, he came to be regarded as the leader of the more cautious elements in the Congress, but after Pearl Harbor, C. R. decided that non-violence was no safeguard in such a violent world. With masterly tact he persuaded Gandhi not only to resign from leadership of the Congress, but to give his blessing to Nehru and the rest...
...India, sympathetic Sir Stafford Cripps could sound out all factions privately, work toward compromises all around. He would do so with a veteran lawyer's tact as well as high minded ambition. Conceivably he might engineer an Indian agreement, headed toward representative self-government and all-out war effort, that would make his name ring in Indian and British history...
...went back to London, where by the age of seven he had built up an army of nearly 1 ,000 toy soldiers. He went to Harrow, where he once by mistake pushed a star athlete into the swimming pool, displayed typical Churchill tact in his apology. "I am very sorry," he said, "I mistook you for a Fourth Form boy. You are so small. My father, who is a great man, is also small...