Word: caution
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memories. In his bare little office in Tacloban, small, silent President Sergio Osmeña toiled at the multiple tasks of the new Government. He moved with tolerance and caution. After Corregidor's surrender, thousands of Filipinos had accepted Japanese "Kalibapi cards" and joined Japanese "neighborhood associations," simply to go on living and eating. But the Filipinos wanted no head-shavings or witch hunts. By last week 140 suspected collaborators were imprisoned. But Sergio Osmeña wanted only major offenders; 60 small fry suspects had already been paroled...
...press commented, but with caution. Between the lines the editorial writer almost took visible shape-a middle-aged man with a green eyeshade and cigar, making soothing motions and muttering, "Ladies! Ladies...
...point up a reason for all this caution, the Senate's Mead Committee last week came up with a first-rate example of the enormous profits which private speculators might make in surpluses. The Army decided to sell 22,000,000 flashlight batteries-for which it had paid 7½? each-for 4? apiece, although the ceiling price on such batteries is 10?. Thus, buyers might clean up as much as $1,000,000 by reselling the batteries. When the Senate Committee stepped in, the Treasury hastily canceled the sale...
...Robinson), a humdrum family man, stops on the way to his club to gaze at a glamorous portrait in a gallery window. When the portrait's model (Joan Bennett) turns up and they fall into conversation, the professor feels he is on the brink of adventure. Throwing caution to the winds, he goes to her apartment-quite literally to look at etchings. But when the girl's lover bursts in and attacks him, Wanley in self-defense stabs him to death with a pair of scissors...
...this adroit move, obviously sanctioned by the high command, was not lost on North Dakotans. It was plain that Tom Dewey had ordered no more than the merest routine courtesy to Isolationist Nye, and had given Independent Lynn Stambaugh a pat on the back. This was also typical Dewey caution...