Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with what caution - with what foresight - with what dissimulation I went to work . . . Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust...
...then, argued pretty Senora Peron, could such hard-boiled advisers as Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia caution her not to go to fascist Spain-simply because the U.S. (which husband Juan Peron is currently wooing) might view the trip dimly? Did not Bramuglia and those other Dutch uncles know about the plans? How she would fly in a special four-motored transport, escorted by two Argentine army planes, to the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha? How Spanish flyers would meet her there and take her to Madrid with full military honors...
Extremist. In Chicago, R. B. Heehler got a ticket for speeding, 15 minutes later got a second ticket for speeding, four hours later-as he crept along, with vengeful caution, at 8 m.p.h.-got a third summons for impeding traffic...
...note of caution against "excessive optimism and excessive pessimism ... in the never-ending struggle for law and justice." There was another note of warning: "If we are going to build a regime of law among nations, we must struggle to create a world in which no nation can arbitrarily impose its will upon another nation. Neither the United States nor any other state should have the power to dominate the world. . . . As a great power ... we have a responsibility, veto or no veto, to see that other states do not use force except in defense of law. The United States...
...newspaper route. Later he sold silk stockings to help himself through the University of Pennsylvania. From there, he went directly into the Government, where he burgeoned as a New Deal statistician. He advocated all-out production before the war when even the Army was still moving with caution...