Word: cautions
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Hartmann approached with due caution. Suddenly, he saw the General's right arm begin to twitch convulsively. His hand, twisted into a claw, groped its way upwards and clutched his forehead in a vicelike grip. His body, usually as erect as a ferro-concrete tower, tottered and threatened to collapse...
Russian Option. Special Envoy Ball, finally and flatly rebuffed by Makarios, grimly left the island, stopping off in Turkey and Greece to urge calm and caution on both governments. Aware that Cyprus was going to the U.N., Britain and the U.S. activated their last-ditch plan. London, about an hour ahead of Cyprus, requested an "early meeting" of the Security Council to deal with the "dangerous situation" posed by the fratricidal fighting. The British move was strictly procedural, and its aim was to get before the forum of the world the Anglo-American conviction that first things should come first...
...Word of Caution. On crossexamination, Waller brought out Beckwith's militant segregationist sentiments. Beckwith admitted writing a letter to a Jackson newspaper in which he said: "I shall bend every effort to rid the U.S. of integrationists, whoever and wherever they may be." As Waller read the excerpt, Beckwith leaned forward to caution him solicitously: "I want you to understand; and where there is humor intended, I want you to laugh and smile; and where it is serious, I want you to be serious...
...moon's surface is desperately needed to guide the design of moon-landing vehicles. "We must have close-up pictures of the moon's surface," said one high space administrator. "We're not going to commit a man to make a flight without this knowledge." Such caution may well force modifications in the rigid time schedule that has been set for putting a man on the moon before...
...presented by Rowse, the sonnets do seem delightfully clear. They read, in fact, almost like a novel. But is Rowse's theory fact? U.S. Shakespearean critics are inclined to think so, since it agrees with the current commonsensical view. But with characteristic scholarly caution, they wish that Rowse would not be so cocksure about it. "Until there are some new documents," said Harvard's Professor Alfred Harbage, expressing a whole scholarly philosophy of life, "we want more people to say 'I don't know...