Word: caution
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controversy, the ballot represents a cross-section of Student Union opinion throughout the country, with only the New England States in agreement with Harvard about the need for condemnation. Student Union leaders at Harvard regret that Harvard finds itself thus in the minority in such a controversy, but caution about "crying out against the Student Union before considering the facts...
...Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick passage to the scene last week as the German Legation warned local newspapers to handle Allied news with caution, to "keep entirely to the truth-loving communiqués of the German High Command...
...that there is still plenty of unemployment to warrant continued government activity. That is not "suppression of the truth." It is not even necessarily prompted by a belief that the economy has hit a period of "secular stagnation," for which "collectivism" is the only solution. It is simply a caution that all is not yet right with the economic system, and that the deceptive Thompson figures should not lead us to cut public activity more rapidly than the business revival justifies. Nine million or two million, there are still enough unemployed around to make them a problem that demands vigorous...
...district is rural except for about 2,000 Alexandria railroadmen who always vote against him anyway, if they have an alternative. "Judge" Smith's country-lawyer shrewdness was underrated only by New Dealers, who laughed at his wing collar, ribboned pince-nez and air of extreme, Coolidge-like caution...
...drag its heavy boats over forested hills to avoid the French on Lake Champlain; sloshes waist-deep in mosquito-infested swamps; forms a human chain to cross the rushing St. Francis River (actors were protected against chills by some 200 suits of watertight rubber underwear). Amidst repeated admonitions to caution, the Rangers make enough noise (once they explode a powder keg) to rouse half the Amerinds in North America. But the Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers gleefully fire their...