Word: caution
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could raise taxes, which Harry Truman seems to want to do, while some of his advisers caution against it. A boost in taxes, they argue, would be bad in a political year like 1950; besides it might dangerously jiggle the prosperous but sensitive economy...
...only boy from a slum who got rich in the rackets: in his day the U.S. had become as much a land of opportunity for the graduate of Dannemora as for the graduate of Dartmouth. But Frank Costello had the brains, luck and jungle caution to stay rich-rich, alive and free as air-while Al Capone went raving to his grave, while bullets cut down Dutch Schultz and Dion O'Banion, while Lepke Buchalter burned in the electric chair, while Lucky Luciano went off to exile and a hundred minor hoodlums rotted in prison...
Spry King Gustaf of Sweden, 91, and his brothers, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, 90, and Prince Carl, 88, threw caution to the winds at a birthday party for Oscar in Stockholm's Drottningholm Castle. Abandoning their rigid spartan diet, they gorged themselves on a few favorite dishes of their youth: lobster American, goose liver, partridge, champagne, ice cream...
Professor Sumner H. Slichter of Harvard, a man who approaches his subject with scholarly caution, raised his sights from the present, and tried to see what the U.S. would be like 30 years from now. His report was bottomed on sober statistics and hedged by careful qualifications -but it all added up to a bright vision. The good things in store for the U.S. in 1980, Professor Slichter wrote in the November Atlantic Monthly, will make the prosperity of the 1940s seem pale and austere...
With idealistic caution the U. S. can let it die to preserve an expensive and unsatisfactory status quo. With considerable risk and some dishonesty the U. S. can uphold its existence and the vitality of its doctrine. Of the two, economic aid and backing in the U.N. offer the best hope for a workable future...