Word: caution
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taxes. Since then he has tried filming such abstract subjects as Emotion v. Reason. High-domed Reason is personified as an automobile driver. Emotion is a caveman chained to the back seat. When they meet a pretty girl, Emotion yells "Hey, Babe," overrules Driver Reason's caution. Again Reason yields when Emotion suggests a little drink; they wind up in jail. But as regards babies and the U.S. flag, Emotion and Reason get along fine together...
Aerial Thumbs. Army peacetime flying had been a model of sanity and caution. In the decade ending last spring the accident rate had been steadily shaved, but it had been inching up ever since the training-expansion program began. Only a few of the accidents were fatal. Seventy per cent were minor, mostly on training fields-pilots and student pilots telescoped their landing gears in hard touchdowns or chewed up wingtips in groundloops...
Baseball fans in Portland, Ore. got a hot earful one night recently when they tuned in on little KWJJ ("The Voice From Broadway") for the nightly roundup of baseball scores. What they heard was an indignation meeting held in disregard of the U.S. Censor's caution against "man in the street" programs. Its purport: that Portland police are too bloody rough...
That most Britons want a second front this year seemed plainer than ever last week. It seemed plainer, too, that they think there is too much crusty caution, inefficiency and politicking in their coalition Government. Thanks to the wartime political truce, Parliamentary party lines have been virtually unchanged since before Munich...
...Caution. In Pasadena, William C. Smith, 75, and Jennie E. Renslow, 72, applied for a marriage license on the soth anniversary of their engagement. In High Point, N.C., a jury awarded a divorce to an 83-year-old man who had been separated from his wife for 26 years. He said he wanted to be free...