Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Berlin crisis might mean imminent war, now believed that the end of the Berlin blockade was at least the beginning of peace. In many quarters, the notion grew that the Russians were undertaking a strategic withdrawal from Europe. This attitude was balanced by a note of uneasy caution. Many observers found that by & large in their press and radio the Communists were being their usual difficult selves. Said U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery: "The flowers of peace cannot be expected to bloom in the poisoned atmosphere of lies and distortions...
...charged that the Sullivan Bill would intimidate and silence every teacher who feared that something he said might be construed as being atheistic or communistic, and thus "caution would replace innovation, and conformity would supplant controversy...
Even a man who made a million dollars a year (there were only 94 by the most recent count, as compared with 513 in 1929), would feel a certain caution after paying up to $770,000 in tax. Many of the nation's heavy spenders, who kept the big nightclubs and the Florida hotels open, used expense-account dollars, which was still fun-but not quite in the same old, free and purposeless...
About 30 puddings were actually delivered to the tasters. Many more girls, with more caution, merely wrote in to find out if the whole thing was on the level...
...news was good; yet few consumers seemed to be setting off rockets. Maybe it was just a perverse American custom to worry when prices went up, and worry also when they went down. There was certainly some caution in the air. Florida had never had so many tourists, but along Miami Beach, where workmen had labored overtime under nightlong floodlights to build 19 new hotels for the booming luxury trade, that trade was no longer booming. In Seattle a waitress complained: "Things are starting to tighten up all right; you get twice as many 10? tips...