Word: cautionings
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...those who would have had him take the high road toward war or the low road of appeasement. He stayed, instead, on the rutted, booby-trapped road in between, and he made some forward progress. If he has, indeed, captured the word peace for the U.S., his patience and caution were well worth the prize...
Many of them blamed the slopeline approach lights. In the official instructions distributed to its pilots by American Airlines appears the following entry for Idlewild Airport: "Caution! Slopeline approach lights in operation on Runway 4 can be mistaken for runway." The same warning is given about the slopeline lights at Washington and Los Angeles. No matter what is decided about last week's crash, many pilots will believe that the Italian captain tried to land on the water between the piers...
...setbacks or successes of recent U.S. policy, events hardly warrant the overriding fear, which runs through all these volumes, that the U.S. will be too arrogant in world affairs. The greater danger is that the U.S. will become too impressed with its "limitations" and forget its opportunities. Realistic caution is obviously needed in U.S. policy, but so are imagination and a will to win. The advice from this quartet of distinguished foreign-policy brains is less than caution: it is a plea for compromise that sounds like a statement of the will to lose...
...Gave Us a Mind." U.S. officials, though pleased, sounded a note of caution. Pakistan is suffering from a lack of foreign exchange, has at the moment no dollars to remit any profits or repatriate any capital. Ali was taking the bold and worthwhile gamble that in five years or so, the influx of foreign capital and the benefits it brought would give Pakistan enough foreign exchange to make good on his pledge...
...fitness is estimated by the degree of enthusiasm he shows for a project, the national interest will suffer from the enforced conformity of his fellow scientists in the future. In its more extreme form, this pressure shows itself in book burnings, loyalty oaths, committee investigations, faculty firings, and super-caution...