Word: cautioningly
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Most European drivers on principle ignore the traffic laws, which they regard as an abridgment of their uncivil rights. However, they heed one caution signal: the red-and-white license plates of a car or truck from Belgium. Alone among Western European nations, Belgium does not issue drivers' licenses, give traffic instruction in its schools, or even demand that car owners show rudimentary knowledge of the rules of the road...
Bartlett and Alsop say that in the days between the discovery of the missile bases and the Kennedy announcement of a blockade, Ex-Comm was split between "hawks" and "doves"-those who wanted to invade Cuba or bomb out the missile bases, and those who urged caution. The "most hawklike of the hawks," they write, was Dean Acheson. One of the doves was normally belligerent Bobby Kennedy, who, said the Post, thought that "an air attack against Cuba would be a Pearl Harbor in reverse, and contrary to all American traditions...
...final note of caution: the four players mentioned above perform only in the evening. The excessive demands of the roles make it folly to attempt more than one performance a day (Salvini, remember, refused to play Othello more than four times a week). The matinee performances, therefore, offer a completely different cast; and there seems general agreement that only Kate Reid's Martha can stand up alongside the evening counterpart...
...foundations: Albert Einstein proved that matter is energy, Max Planck proved that energy comes in indivisible packets he called quanta. Lord Rutherford proved that though the very name atom means "indivisible" in Greek, atoms are not indivisible. Nothing seemed certain. One physicist declared that all students should be warned: "Caution! Dangerous structure! Closed for reconstruction...
With their backs against the wall, the desperate Coast Guard threw caution to the winds in the last race, but could not quite outscore Harvard. The academy had boats in first, second, and third places during the first leg of the race. Coming around the weather mark, however, the four Crimson dinghies moved into second through sixth positions. The race and the championship were clinched when one of the Cadet dinghies was disqualified for a rule infraction...