Word: cautionings
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...Cabinet into proposing changes in the Taft-Hartley Act, reversing a decision to duck such political dynamite in an election year. Sold on Nixon's view, the Cabinet asked Ike to plump for the amendments in a major speech. This time the Vice President sounded a note of caution: save the President for the real fight: don't waste his prestige where it isn't needed. The Cabinet agreed. Then it assigned the Vice President the job of nursing the improvements through Congress...
...news, the once faithful Communist Teresa took a step unprecedented in scorned fury-she wrote a letter to the editor of the capitalist Corriere delta Sera: "Please print my categorical denial that the Honorable Longo has got a divorce from me." Throwing caution to the winds, the outraged Teresa went on to point out that divorce is forbidden by Italian Communist doctrine: "Communists, in fact, cannot have two policies, one public and the other personal." This amounted to a charge of deviationism, not only against Longo, but against Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti himself (who divorced his wife in Russia...
...cancer-causing agent was known in tobacco smoke, so medical researchers were careful not to fall into the error of arguing post hoc, ergo propter hoc. For a long time, their scientific caution would let them say no more than that there must be a "correlation" between heavy, continued cigarette smoking and lung cancer...
...convinced, however, that this plan is not merely sound in its purpose and imaginative in its methods, but practicable as to its execution. As one surveys the course of Yale's educational development the historian is impressed by the opportunities that have been missed because of excessive caution. The present opportunity is one which I hope Yale will develop courageously...
Servetus could have lived and died as Doctor Villeneuve. But the old urge for theological dispute proved stronger than his caution. He began a clandestine theological correspondence with John Calvin, then leading the reform movement in Geneva, a correspondence which grew more insulting on both sides as their differences became more apparent. In 1553 Servetus secretly published his book, The Restoration of Christianity, reaffirming his attacks on the Trinity...