Word: cautions
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...ideas, laws and generalized intentions which Franklin Roosevelt called the New Deal. It was no longer radical-it had been accepted for 16 years. As far as the Democratic Party was concerned it was the new orthodoxy, and Harry Truman, no original thinker but a man tempered with Missouri caution, was orthodox clear through...
Department store executives in the know have issued one caution this Christmas. If possible, don't guess her size. They've found from experience that men who persuade salesgirls to model their purchase "Because she's just your size" are apt to underestimate their lady's weight by a healthy five or ten pounds...
MacWilliams checked the weather and the military situation. A chalked caution on the briefing board read: "Suchow general situation calm. Fighting going on southeast ten kilometers away. Never circle over or come down to look at fighting area." MacWilliams stopped to talk with other pilots warming their hands over a coal stove. Like MacWilliams, a former U.S. Navy search pilot, they had come to China after the war because they liked flying and could make good money. In a busy month they could net as much as the equivalent...
...despite this editorial caution, the new Bartlett is full of inconsistencies and badly lacking in proportion. Some of the major poets and novelists seem to be there merely for the record, their best known lines omitted. It is human enough to give Churchill top rating among the new entries with 9½ columns, and to give quotable Ogden Nash four, but in general | the space allotted to each "name" seems arbitrary, to say the least...
...President] Conant has been left free to travel about the country addressing meetings. On these occasions, he manages with a 'bridled tongue' to boldly play safe. And he has had more freedom to write articles in which he shows the result of his acquired caution by avoiding disturbing statements [with] well-intended doubletalk...