Word: cautionings
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...warned that grave consequences for Israel could result from Russian casualties. The Soviets were also unhappy with President Nixon's vice-presidential nomination of Representative Gerald Ford, whom they know to be a strong supporter of Israel. But, on balance, U.S. officials concluded that Soviet policy still reflected caution. Commented one White House official: "The real test will come when the Arabs are doing badly and the Soviets have to decide what...
...DECISION of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life not to sponsor a student referendum on ROTC was shortsighted, dangerous and anti-democratic. The CHUL failed as a representative agency of undergraduates and acted out of the most self-defeating myopic brand of bureaucratic caution...
Whatever his motivation, Kreisky's action was the most controversial of a long political career that had previously been marked by such studied caution that it won him the reputation of being Austria's most astute politician. Despite his background as the son of a wealthy industrialist, Kreisky joined the socialist movement at age 15. After the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, he fled to Sweden. Thirteen years passed before he returned home. First as a diplomat and then as Foreign Minister (1959-66), Kreisky deftly helped steer Austria on the course of political neutrality...
...couple of squabbling espionage outfits. Made in France, probably by rote, the movie might have remained there had it not contained several sententious asides on the evils of electronic observation and every citizen's right to privacy. They lend a certain topicality, a tone of lighthearted caution, which, like the movie, is almost totally unnecessary...
...surveyed a scene of jubilation in the New York Met clubhouse one night last week, Manager Yogi Berra felt it necessary to caution his players about overconfidence. "The ball," he warned, "can take funny bounces." Yogi should know. As recently as Aug. 30, the woebegone Mets were languishing in last place in the National League's East Division and the only question was how soon Berra would be fired. Last week, several funny bounces and one winning streak later, the resuscitated New Yorkers were locked in a do-or-die struggle for first place with the Pittsburgh Pirates...