Word: cautioningly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news leaked out through a diplomatic source in Berlin, despatches from Kovno, the "temporary" capitalf of Lithuania, having remained discreetly silent, caution that is an almost indispensable accessory to safety under a dictatorship. This fact, alone, gave the whole episode a Graustarkian touch and the chancelleries of Europe resounded with diplomatic conjecture...
...present) but auxiliary craft as well. Mere "extension" seemed not to call for the same amount of preliminary sounding out which would have been advisable had a wholly new problem been up for consideration. Thus President Coolidge is reputed to have entered the affair with no more than routine caution...
...announcement of the record surplus was accompanied by the caution that many income items will not recur, that next year's surplus should not be judged by this year's, that tax reduction should not be too radical. At the next session of Congress there will doubtless be a conflict between enthusiasts who want to slice some $500,000,000 from the national taxes and conservatives who feel that a cut of even $300,000,000 is unsafe...
...doorkeeper with an air so secretive that the suspicions of an alert Swiss detective were at once aroused. The stranger, grey-haired, straggly mustached, clad in an undistinguished business suit, pattered the length of several corridors, set his bag down, mopped his face. The Swiss detective, with catlike caution, flattened himself against the wall, watched the stranger closely for signs that his bag contained a bomb. Just then a member of the U. S. delegation appeared, shook warmly the hand of the mysterious stranger, William H. Moran, who is, as everyone knows, Chief of the U. S. Secret Service...
Trouble. Fascist censors and the enforced caution of correspondents in Italy, kept news of disorders at a minimum. John Lucas, New York World newsgatherer, inclined to alarums, cabled...