Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...communist orbit, is to make equally attractive concessions. The Administration has indicated that a new era of peace may be dawning. Properly, its policies continue to be cautious. But it must learn a lesson which in these postwar years seems to have been often neglected: that caution is not incompatible with positive action...
...where the 13th century canvas had deteriorated. To him the spots spelled encaustic, a method of painting with pigments mixed in hot wax, which was common among the ancients. Cellini dissolved the glue between the canvas and the panel on which it was mounted. Slowly, with utmost caution, he peeled back the canvas, preserving it in the process. On the panel underneath was an encaustic painting which churchmen of the Middle Ages had apparently thought too old-fashioned to keep. The ancient Madonna gazes with Byzantine intensity from eyes wide and dark as night. She has the classic profile...
...fight; since the French still control the rationing of arms and oil to the Vietnamese army, the commanders had to obey. French colonial infantry and tanks rumbled out into the streets of Saigon to tamp down the battle. Off to Freedom Palace went French Commissioner-General Paul Ely to caution the Premier: "You are trying to seek a decision by force. You must not do it. You must only seek a settlement by political means...
...Soviet government takes a positive attitude to the idea of a great-power conference as expressed by the President of the United States, if [such] a conference would contribute to the lessening of tension in international relations." In Washington Bulganin's announcement was greeted with the cool caution that it deserved...
...passed, PanAmerican Winner Umberto Maglioli and his bloodred, three-liter Ferrari were on the sidelines with a ruined clutch. Another Ferrari, its gas tank leaking, caught fire. Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa slipped off the track in his two-liter Ferrari, clipped a spectator's car, and promptly substituted caution for professional skill. On the way to the pits for repairs, he was rammed from behind and knocked out of the race...