Word: caution
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the impact of these icy blasts from Moscow, many a European statesman began to express private doubts that a meeting would accomplish anything. At Copenhagen, Norway's Halvard Lange, once an all-out summiteer, now urged "extreme caution before we agree with the Russians on summit talks." West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, speaking for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who at Paris had startled the world by urging a fresh approach to the Russians, flatly declared: "We should not alter our position unless the Russians have a substantial offer to make...
Clumsiness v. Caution. One raiding force of rebels staged a clumsy daylight attack outside Manzanillo, planning to lure Batista's armor out from the big city garrison, pile it up by triggering a homemade mine in the road, and then pick off the soldiers with rifle fire. The armor did not come out, but truckloads of soldiers did. The mine was a dud. Coordinated ground fire and strafing planes caught the rebels in an open field, and at least half of the 21-man force was wiped out. The government reported that twelve more rebels were killed when they...
Even the weekly Literarni Noviny, published by the Union of Czechoslovak Writers, was moved to mix praise of the TIME volume with big-brotherly caution. It ran a reproduction of Richard Florsheim's Night City from the book and commented...
...advertiser's theory is that news of the recession stirs up even more caution and uncertainty in consumers. But newspapers that tailor the news to this formula help neither the economy nor themselves. Says Tennessean Editor Coleman A. Harwell: "How can we pretend there's no unemployment when people are talking about it? If we pretend, we look stupid...
There was little doubt that businessmen were holding back. For the first time in almost three years, the total of loans outstanding in New York City banks fell below the year-ago level. One reason for businessmen's caution was that a fresh batch of Government statistics showed somewhat more gloom than cheer. Manufacturers' sales for January dropped by $400 million, new orders slumped by $900 million, and order backlogs dipped by $1.6 billion - the 13th straight monthly decline. Manufacturers' production went down even faster than sales. Result: inventories were cut $600 million in January...