Word: caution
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born a peasant in a nation that is 75% peasant. He came up politically as a peasant spokesman. He has never lost his peasant temperament; he is solid, slow in speech and thought, stubborn in principle and action. His chief political defect is a peasant's sly caution, often carried to the point of hesitation at moments of decision. Even his only known hobby has the peasant touch: he is a beekeeper...
...world had learned that Big Three communiqués never solve as much as they seem to, so optimism over the results was tinged with considerable caution. But by any reckoning, the meeting had at least got big-power collaboration started again. Now UNO could come on from the wings without having the curtain suddenly rung down on it. The peace-making could go forward...
Like any man who has spent 32 years in politics, Jimmy Byrnes has a well-developed bump of caution. Lost in a storm over Moscow last week, he fretted : "You know, we might run into the side of a mountain." His interpreter, Charles E. Bohlen, pointed out that there were no mountains "around here." "That's fine," said Byrnes, "but do you know where 'here' is?" After a full hour of circling they landed, and Byrnes, in a tan topcoat and low pointed shoes, alighted in Moscow's sub-zero weather...
...course, that he is a saint unilaterally." Other effusions: "He is not just one animal but the whole zoo"; "He is the common denominator of man"; "When he goes to sleep, it is like . . . Aphrodite ascending"; "He has returned to the womb bearing great gifts." A surrealist mingles caution with admiration: "To Henry Miller. . . . Don't let the amphibious wife strangle you with a nightgown. It isn't decent with an orange...
...Criminal Caution. In Hamilton, Ont., Fire Chief William Murdoch appealed to burglars: please stamp out cigaret butts before leaving the scene of the crime...