Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbed Fishhooks. Smith's first impulse was to tell Stalin he had a deal. Thirty months in Moscow, however, has taught Smith caution. He told Stalin that he and his colleagues would cable the proposal to their governments. In Washington, experts sat up all night prodding at the Russian text in search of diplomatic booby traps, found none they considered lethal. They cabled Smith a series of suggested clarifications. He and the others tried to work them out with Foreign Minister Molotov. For a week they wrangled over shades of meaning. A Washington official described the process: "Molotov insists...
...tired players as Bogart, Robinson, Barrymore, Trevor and Gomez, and gets such performances from them that they seem like new people. He draws a simple, sharply individualized performance out of Lauren Bacall. His gift for catching the realities of danger and violence is unique; Bogart's quietness and caution is a hundred times as true and exciting (and as brave, for that matter), as the conduct he is usually required to pretend. And Huston is a master of atmosphere: the whole picture reeks not only of immediate danger but of deep Florida's heat, remoteness and sleeping cruelty...
...month of truce had given Israel time to organize its half-formed army more thoroughly. Fighting with their backs to the sea, the Jews were telling each other last week: "Our secret weapon is ein brera" [no alternative]. Some Arab statements were tempered with a new note of caution. "Of course we're confident," said the Arab League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. "The trouble is that some people expect spectacular results right away, but it isn't that kind of a fight. It is a guerrilla war where there are no front lines and no decisive...
...beneath the double covering of trade union caution and British restraint, a fire smolders. Again & again at Scarborough it flashed forth in spite of restrained notes struck by Emanuel Shinwell, the conference chairman, and Herbert Morrison, Labor's Leader of the House of Commons. Morrison called for a period of "consolidation." He indicated that party bosses were going slow on further nationalization of industry...
...medical student is faced with early decision concerning his outline of College study. Too often he is advised to concentrate in the fields of bio-chemistry, biology, chemistry, or physics. The present letter directed toward Freshmen is to caution such concentration. Having talked with members of the admission committees for three medical schools, and with dozens of graduating pre-medical science concentrators as well as medical students, the writer would like to summarize the information so gained...