Word: caution
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this incident to the Cuban missile crisis-a potential nuclear confrontation between two superpowers that was ultimately resolved through delicate negotiations without the U.S. firing a single shot or losing more than a single man. J.F.K., unlike Ford, supported by every nation in the affected area and acting with caution and candor, avoided a direct clash, utilized the U.N. and other channels of communication, issued no ultimatum and authorized no acts of punishment or retaliation...
Rancho Deluxe is the sort of movie that aspires to being shocking and dangerous in a portrayal of contemporary life. It achieves some interesting images and some strong dramatic moments, but its good impulses are blunted by creative caution...
...time last week, it seemed that the 127,000 South Vietnamese making their way toward a new life in the U.S. were destined to spend many excruciating months in a bureaucratic limbo. In an excess of administrative caution, the Immigration and Naturalization Service decreed that, as required by law, each refugee would have to pass security checks by no fewer than five federal agencies, including the FBI and CIA. The flow of newcomers, who had been moving fairly quickly from Guam to military bases in the continental U.S., and thence into new American homes, diminished to a trickle...
...school: "What we've got to do is look hard at what we mean when we talk about collective security. If it's going to cost us 50,000 dead every decade, we're not very secure and our security isn't collective. One caution for young people: if they reject the mistakes of their fathers-and I'm one of them-they should not endorse the mistakes of their grandfathers [i.e., an isolationist attitude]. I think both the Republicans and the Democrats should suspend politics for the rest of this year...
...countryside are still in ruins due to American bombing. Thousands of refugees, needing food and medical supplies, are still crowded into Phnom Penh and will have to gradually return to their homes. Khmer Rouge spokesmen said last week that the new government will regard the U.S. with caution, but they left open the possibility of good relations in the future and American aid in the days immediately ahead. The U.S. should seize this opportunity to begin repairing the devastation our policies and actions have brought to Cambodia...