Word: cautions
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...offset this caution, Wendell Willkie planned more speeches, more trips. Said he: "Voters are watching to see if we have the imagination and courage...
...Innocent Voyage (adapted by Paul Osborn from Richard Hughes's novel A High Wind in Jamaica; produced by The Theatre Guild) makes a game try at a tough target. Richard Hughes's strikingly original novel is a caution to dramatize. In one sense a fantasy about some 19th-Century children who fell into the hands of pirates and plagued the merry life out of them, it is also a bold study of the seemingly innocent but impenetrable, amoral and frequently shocking nature of children...
...more effort would clear the Russian land. To make this effort, the Red Command threw caution to the winds. The first snows of winter fell. But the Red armies thrust and spread out without regard for enemy counterattacks. Tanks and cavalry far outdistanced the infantrymen, probably relied on captured food and fuel. At moments, the fate of the entire offensive teetered in the balance. But there was power behind the Red Army's daring; power and daring...
...found later on a piece of glassware. The mystery of how the mosquito netting over Sir Harry's bed could burn without smudging the white ceiling was left unsolved. On these and many other points the Crown had seemed strangely listless. But the defense had shown the same caution, left spectators puzzling over its failure to challenge numerous alibis...
Black Is Grey. "Women are easily managed in these things," confided the canny Dean of Windsor, "by a little humouring and caution without any departure from truthfulness." Ponsonby learned that anyone who contradicted the Queen was "never given a second opportunity." When she said black was white, as she frequently did, Ponsonby agreed (with reservations), but reached a delicate compromise on grey. When she wrote that Mr. Gladstone was a "half-crazy ... deluded . . . excited . . . ridiculous . . . wild . . . fanatical old man," Ponsonby communicated her views to the Prime Minister in a letter so gracious that Mr. Gladstone was quite pleased. When...