Word: caution
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year. They always abandon their young when threatened, but when unmolested show tender regard for their infants' education. No adolescent rat is allowed to leave the nest until old enough to fend for itself. Its mother guides it out, trains it to keep close to walls, teaches it caution by testing all food for poison. -She warns against dogs, cats and traps. Specialist Nicholes believes that rats have some sort of mental telepathy which enables them to communicate knowledge and to broadcast alarms throughout the rat population...
Scientists also soon learn "how vast is the novelty of the world, and how much even the physical world transcends in delicacy and in balance the limits of man's prior imaginings. . . . We come to have a great caution on all assertions of totality, of finality or absoluteness...
Despite his caution and record revenues, the prospect for a balanced budget was "precarious." Estimated surplus was a slim $5,000,000. The Governor was firmly against...
...Churchill's case, it was a question of caution. On three separate occasions he tried to sidetrack BOLERO for a less risky venture. The last time, Stimson wrote angrily in his diary: "As the British won't go through with what they agreed to, we will turn our backs on them and take up the war with Japan." In Roosevelt's case, it was a question of "some operation in 1942" and a "lingering predilection for the Mediterranean." The resulting compromise was the invasion of North Africa, a bitter disappointment to Stimson, but "the only operation that...
...another war will wipe everybody off the face of the earth," mused Nobel Physicist Arthur H. Compton, with scientific caution. "That's pretty extreme. And it won't destroy civilization -there'll be some pieces left. But it will be an enormous setback. We'll have to start all over, from 'way back...