Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputies had acted with praiseworthy caution while he was away. They had not committed the precious French mobile reserve to the defense of Route Coloniale No. 18. When the Communists attacked, the French had retreated slowly...
...last week, the hosannas were being drowned in a chorus of pleas for caution. The nation's pundits, from Walter Lippmann to Max Lerner and on down to Westbrook Pegler, urged the U.S. to go slow on televising public affairs. Judge Samuel Leibowitz feared that, without safeguards, TV might become "a sinister weapon of slander...
...small. There is no reason to question the good faith of University Hall in protecting the secrecy of the list in other cases. But the YP is worried about its lists. Minority opinions are so unpopular these days that men who hold them are to be excused for excessive caution. It is important to afford the holders of these opinions all possible protection...
...gaping shock. Magnani had blatantly voiced the heresy known as national deviation, or Titoism. Party bigwigs huddled in an emergency meeting, summoned Magnani, demanded his retraction. The dean of Italy's Communist Senators, Umberto Terracini, who himself had once been suspected of deviation, gave Valdo Magnani a confidential caution: "A few years ago, I too wanted to hit against the steel wall, but I broke my fist and it still hurts...
...contribution that few Americans know about-whether from lack of interest or pure defensive caution. Following a modern poet up a mental slope carries real danger of getting hopelessly lost above the tree line of meaning. Lucid, logical John Ransom is not that kind of poet. Much of his poetry is as transparent as a weather report. As skillful in craft as he is slender in output, he can write movingly and hauntingly about the death of a small child, as in Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter...