Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rewards. The typical career diplomat was born on the Eastern seaboard and graduated from an Ivy League college (though the younger, rising generation is more scattered in origin and education). His training makes him an observer rather than a doer, a compromiser rather than a shaker, a man of caution rather than a man of decision. Only a rare few have private means of their own, and except in the very biggest missions, riches are no longer a prerequisite...
...board in its reversal: "[Service] knew very early in his association with Jaffe that Jaffe was a very doubtful character, extremely left-wing [and Service] had a continuing line of warnings as to Jaffe's character . . . Yet, notwithstanding, we find in the [hotel] conversations no indication of any caution by Service . . . Jaffe . .. rarely failed to get from Service what he asked...
...Weather Bureau last night issued a special bulletin warning motorists in all Northeastern states to "exercise caution and to postpone motor travel whenever and wherever possible" because of sleet and freezing rain or snow expected early this morning...
...girl in rehearsal clothes came on next, and approached the "Piper" with wide-eyed caution. He soon had them both in a trance. At a sudden flurry of notes, they staggered away, responding to every spasm of the music like so many puppets on strings...
...Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, remarked yesterday. "In prohibition days there were many devices." Now there is no longer, any need for makeshift, unsafe devices. One last word of caution, however. The CRIMSON's consultants wish to point out that the entire process, of course, is highly illegal...