Word: tactlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Economic Stabilization. At war's end he fought successfully to keep controls on wages and prices in the name of an orderly transition to a peacetime economy; as a result, he amassed one army of bitter conservative enemies and another of happy liberal disciples. After one earnest but tactless term as Governor of Connecticut (1949-51), he was defeated for reelection, got a Truman appointment as Ambassador to India...
Finnish political parties said and did about Finland's ties to Moscow-and then released the speech. Having thus made Finland out to be almost a Kremlin satrapy, Khrushchev next praised Kekkonen as a friend of Russia with such tactless lavishness that even Kekkonen squirmed...
...Welensky's tactless remarks offend many Rhodesians "Unwarrantable interference in the internal affairs of another country," said Belgium, which hopes it can keep the colony together long enough to give it its independence...
...service" from Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Aside from composing such popular tunes as Romance and Caprice Viennois, Virtuoso Kreisler also "ghostwrote" a series of compositions that he ascribed to 17th and 18th century masters; years later he confessed that he had done so because "I found it inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly on the programs." During the city hall ceremony Kreisler, who played his first U.S. concert in 1888 and retired in 1950, turned to Wife Harriet, kissed her with the perfected affection accruing from 57 years of classically happy marriage...