Word: cautioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yellow for Caution. Yellow caution lights flared all over the track. The drivers who had escaped the crash held their positions while the track was cleared. But eight cars were out of commission. When the caution lights blinked off, the front runner was a handsome, husky, 31-year-old Arizona cowboy named Jimmy Bryan...
...Word of Caution. One of the effects of this new friendship "is a constant invitation from Protestants to Catholics to cooperate with them in their projects." Catholics, he said, "are embarrassed about this new trend. They do not wish to be rude, and they wish to reciprocate the good will shown them. But they do not know to what the acceptance of the invitation commits them. Many therefore politely but awkwardly refuse the welcome, but many more are now accepting the welcome and find the intercourse pleasant and profitable...
...word of caution must be spoken to Catholics and Protestants alike. Catholics in their simplicity may easily think that the Protestant willingness to come nearer to Catholicism in doctrine and religious cult is a sign that Protestants are now ripe for conversion to the Catholic church. Such an interpretation of events would be woefully erroneous. We simply must face the fact that for the Protestant this action confirms him in his Protestantism." On the other hand, in the Protestant-Catholic dialogue, he said, the Protestant must understand "that the Catholic hasn't the slightest intention of becoming a Protestant...
Pollster Gallup had one note of caution. Early in 1946 Democrats held a 55% edge in the same area of nationwide congressional preference, but toward midsummer, resentment against a rash of crippling strikes by labor unions turned the tide. That November, Republicans captured a majority of 246 House seats in the 80th Congress, even though Democrat Harry Truman was in the White House. Gallup's 1958 escape hatch: with a summer business upturn, congressional history might possibly repeat itself...
...Tactic of Silence. As the supreme crisis of the Fourth Republic edged into its second week, almost everybody involved in the maneuvering seemed to be playing a dangerous forcing role with a skillful caution that left room for retreat. Premier Pflimlin. gaining time with each day in office, was unflinching but not unyielding; he might have denounced the Algiers military junta for sedition, but he chose instead to remind it of its duty. The junta itself preserved a careful ambiguity about the source of its authority. Unpredictable Zealot Jacques Soustelle. greeted by fervent admirers in Algiers, nonetheless cried ou; "Long...