Word: cautioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...word of caution: "the '60s involves flat sides, puffiness on top and something called "tucks" in the vicinity of the ear, and should be part of a platform shoes and bellbottoms ensemble...
...those artists he characterizes in the title track as "lousy little poets/ Coming round/ Trying to sound like Charlie Manson." He knows how to be vulnerable as well as play at it. His love songs twist the heart around like fingers knotting a string. The gloomy ironies of political caution, like Democracy, are applied with a sense of urgency but salved by some surefooted wit ("I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean:/ I love the country but I can't stand the scene") that neatly sidesteps sermonizing...
Beginners may want to avoid Ajax--or at least to proceed with caution. If you feel you just have to say you've skied this behemoth, here's a tip: make a big show of getting on the gondola in the morning, spend the day in Little Nell's drinking hot chocolate, and then quietly ride the gondola down...
...explains a senior official in Washington, "and the number of people we were reaching was going down." While there is no scale on which to calculate how much suffering is enough to justify unleashing the nation's armed forces, Somalia's horror pushed Bush out of his usual caution into a determination to prevail...
...experts caution that squirrels can get accustomed to their feedings--with deleterious side effects. Judy M. Chupasko, a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, blames constant human contact, especially feeding, for the squirrels' aggressive behavior...