Word: caution
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief, the big shot. With eyes straight to the camera and, therefore, to the people of the world, he seems to sense that he is in the driver's seat, that he is No. 1 man. Yet there is present that suggestion of coldness and suspicion, call it caution or wariness if you will. He knows what he wants and he means...
...Department had burned its fingers by hastening to recognize the new government in Argentina, which turned out to be anti-Allied. Therefore Secretary of State Cordell Hull now moved with caution and suspicion on the question of recognizing the new Bolivian government. From the Department view, the deposed government of President Enrique Peñaranda, stooge of the tin-mine owners, had been satisfactory; after all, Bolivian tin kept flowing north, and that was the main thing. But from Washington came indications that the new government intended to cooperate fully with the U.S. The new government's "confidential agent...
...offset this caution, Wendell Willkie planned more speeches, more trips. Said he: "Voters are watching to see if we have the imagination and courage...
...Innocent Voyage (adapted by Paul Osborn from Richard Hughes's novel A High Wind in Jamaica; produced by The Theatre Guild) makes a game try at a tough target. Richard Hughes's strikingly original novel is a caution to dramatize. In one sense a fantasy about some 19th-Century children who fell into the hands of pirates and plagued the merry life out of them, it is also a bold study of the seemingly innocent but impenetrable, amoral and frequently shocking nature of children...
...found later on a piece of glassware. The mystery of how the mosquito netting over Sir Harry's bed could burn without smudging the white ceiling was left unsolved. On these and many other points the Crown had seemed strangely listless. But the defense had shown the same caution, left spectators puzzling over its failure to challenge numerous alibis...