Word: caution
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warner). Twenty-three years ago a good-natured, redheaded, gangling young hillbilly from Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains joined the Big Parade and headed for Europe with the 82nd Division of the A.E.F. His name was Alvin Cullum York, and the way he could handle a Springfield was a caution. Originally a conscientious objector, he had overcome his religious scruples against killing to go abroad and put a stop...
...last week the course of Foreign Minister Matsuoka-a course of adventuresome diplomacy combined with military caution-had put Japan into one of the worst dilemmas of her history. Japan had to decide, and quickly, whose sun was setting on the horizon of world dominion...
...purging the Foreign Office and diplomatic corps of men friendly to Great Britain and the U.S., promised a "diplomatic Blitzkrieg" when he took office. The era of "toadying" was over for Japan. As a result of his contradictory utterances down the years, of his diplomatic adventurousness and military caution, the London-Washington Axis heartily mistrusts him; so do many Japanese, and possibly the Berlin-Rome Axis does also...
First Day. He knew that the British were mounting an attack. Though the British had used great caution, Axis reconnaissance had for seven days spotted perhaps two divisions of Indian infantry, scattered thinly and on foot, making its blistering way toward the frontier from Matrúh, 150 miles inside Egypt. General Rommel knew that so much infantry does not move so far so fast in the face of such hardships unless a real attack is contemplated...
During the opening stages of the war, there seemed to be no realization at Harvard that a conflict was actually taking place. In October, the first indication of interest was the appearance of an editorial in the Crimson warning undergraduates to use nothing but the most extreme caution in "expression of personal opinion in the present crisis." It was inadvisable, said the editors, that any member of the University "separate-from the position of complete neutrality, as regards public utterances, which President Wilson has proclaimed desirable." Obviously, neutrality meant something then...