Word: caution
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more effort would clear the Russian land. To make this effort, the Red Command threw caution to the winds. The first snows of winter fell. But the Red armies thrust and spread out without regard for enemy counterattacks. Tanks and cavalry far outdistanced the infantrymen, probably relied on captured food and fuel. At moments, the fate of the entire offensive teetered in the balance. But there was power behind the Red Army's daring; power and daring...
Black Is Grey. "Women are easily managed in these things," confided the canny Dean of Windsor, "by a little humouring and caution without any departure from truthfulness." Ponsonby learned that anyone who contradicted the Queen was "never given a second opportunity." When she said black was white, as she frequently did, Ponsonby agreed (with reservations), but reached a delicate compromise on grey. When she wrote that Mr. Gladstone was a "half-crazy ... deluded . . . excited . . . ridiculous . . . wild . . . fanatical old man," Ponsonby communicated her views to the Prime Minister in a letter so gracious that Mr. Gladstone was quite pleased. When...
...rumors and reports poured in from the neutral countries near Germany, from the Reich itself, from occupied territory. The message they seemed to spell out: crisis is bringing on important changes in the German High Command and civil government. Expert observers in London studied the evidence with interest and caution, offered an interested and cautious verdict: "Could...
There were four principal reasons for this seeming shyness: 1) the Japanese Navy was busy with its traditional mission of building and maintaining supply lines, 2) attrition of Japanese strength and additions to U.S. strength, in both naval and merchant vessels, had finally clamped caution on to Japanese helms, 3) the new Commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Mineichi Koga, was a careful man, and 4) the flexibility of Allied strategy had the Japs guessing about the best way of defending their home islands...
...favored Lend-Lease, military preparedness, decided before Pearl Harbor that the U.S. would have to go to war. His ambiguous record as a Presidential candidate in 1940 was dictated by 1) his emotional distaste for war ("I suppose at heart I am really a pacifist") and 2) political caution...