Word: caution
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before, these pages have advised kind readers to refrain from deposting their hard-earned coin in the coffers of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, they now caution those selfsame readers to hasten the box office while tickets still remain. "For it were a shame to have seen the rest, and to have fail's to see the best...
Harvard has had great success against M.I.T. in the past, including an 18-1 thumping last year, but coach Bruce Munro yesterday voiced caution. "M.I.T. has a better team than usual, and in our decimated condition, we're expecting to have trouble," Munro said...
...date with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu was a great deal simpler than keeping it. When he arrived at the presidential palace to interview Thieu for this week's cover story, Clark's press credentials did not move the guards to relax the caution of long experience. The office car, the two tape recorders Clark was carrying, everything got a thorough going-over. In a search for hidden bombs or bombers, one guard even poked under the chassis with a mirror fixed to the end of a long pole...
...Question. Nixon has taken a position on the anti-ballistic missile, but one that does not really settle the issue (see following story). The decision typifies his approach so far-somewhere between action and caution. As for Viet Nam, Nixon has not -so far as the public can see, anyway-moved from the Johnson Administration's policy. Casualties still run as high as 300 or 400 a week. Since peace talks began in Paris last May, more than 10,000 young Americans have been killed...
Scientists often pride themselves in being "reasonably cautious," reserving opinion until a large body of evidence is available. In the realm of science's social consequences, this caution can easily turn into apathy. If the only outcome of today's research stoppage is an increased willingness on the part of scientists to use the word "protest," the stoppage will still have been a success...