Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After careful, detailed study by his advisers, Dwight Eisenhower will begin sending a series of budget-change messages to Congress by April 1. The aim is still to balance the budget, but Joe Dodge had a word of caution: "You can't perform 60-day miracles...
...plucked from every walnut tree, complete with silk hat, inaugural speech, and one year's salary absolutely tax free, 999,999 out of a million women would hesitate a long, long time before getting one for themselves.* Even little girls seem to regard the White House with extreme caution. While small boys consistently plan to become President when they grow up, few junior misses waste any time at all plotting to become Presidents' wives. The giddy human female seldom loses her grip on reality. The life of a First Lady is not easy...
...chances of war have receded. There's quite a difference." Churchill said that resistance to Communist aggression in Korea was "the greatest event of the last five years." It had done more than anything else to improve the prospect for world peace. Then he slipped in some British caution: "And there are worse things than a stalemate. A checkmate, for instance." He still thought the free world's center of gravity lay along the frontiers of the Iron Curtain in Europe-"although I may be biased in my views...
...asking its students to 'make studies of how the last war affected the dating pattern of our culture.' " This type of unbridled experiment ought not to be allowed in U.S. schools, said Bestor. As educators, "we are under the most solemn obligation to proceed with care . . . The caution and circumspection characteristic of medical research is the only proper model, for we are dealing with something as precious as human life itself. Vague hypotheses, truncated experiments, rash conclusions and loose generalizations are utterly out of place...
...listing my speed as 65, when both he and I knew I was going somewhat faster ... I will be unable to appear as my ship has . . . sailed away with me upon it. I ... fly a jet fighter airplane based on an aircraft carrier ... I plead guilty [but] I would caution you to submit any financial claims rapidly because jet flying . . . has turned out to be somewhat hazardous. The odds are roughly three to one that if I don't receive your assessment within the next six weeks you will receive an 'addressee deceased' letter in return. This...