Word: cautions
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...when the Canadians overseas were edgy and impatient under their long inaction, he addressed them and was roundly booed. This time the troops knew that action could not be long delayed. Cabled the suspicious correspondent of the King-hating Toronto Evening Telegram: "C.O.'s had been primed to caution their men . . . to be on their best behavior. . . ." The only grouse heard from the ranks was the not-so-cryptic remark of a hard-bitten private with no love for dress parades: "I wonder if they can read our thoughts...
...unable to discover conclusive evidence that the railroads would get better prices for their issues through competitive bidding. It found it "reason able to believe" that they would. Sensibly, it held that only an actual test would tell how the system will work out. As a pre caution, the ICC left a big loophole in its ruling: competitive bidding can be waived by the ICC on specific bond issues...
...twelve families that own England." Their coat of arms: sable, three bucks' heads cabossed argent with a crest of a serpent nowed proper and two bucks, each wreathed round the neck with a chaplet of roses, argent and azure, as supporters. The Cavendish motto: Cavendo Tutus, Secure by Caution...
...Truisms, caution, simplicity and all, Lev Saltonstall has given the Bay State six years of respectable government, after years of storm and scandal. In doing so, Blueblood Saltonstall has become the Republican Party's No. 1 asset in New England. Accordingly he has been mentioned as a Presidential possibility-but more often for the vice-presidency. An internationalist long before Pearl Harbor, Saltonstall was a Willkie man in 1940. Now he is cautiously neutral, and will go to the G.O.P. convention unpledged. He well knows that if either Willkie or Dewey-both New Yorkers-gets the nomination, they will...
...Department, which used "extreme caution" in compiling these official figures, counted an additional 6,942 enemy planes as probably destroyed or damaged...