Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building echoed deafeningly with rifle fire, pistol shots and grenade explosions. It needed some cautious maneuvering to recognize what corner not to go around. . . . The Rebels were on the floor below us, firing upward, while Loyalists shot down or dropped hand grenades. . . . Once a song floated upward amazingly from that doomed place below. A soldier next to me heard it just as he was about to draw the pin of a grenade. 'They're singing!' he said in a stupefied tone...
...starvation for six days, surrendered in person. Captives totaled 40 important officers, 2,450 other ranks and about 3.000 civilians. Among the last to surrender was the Church Militant in the person of Anselmo Polanca Fonseca, Bishop of Teruel. Conducted to a nearby railroad station, he signed a cautious statement...
Dissension. That even these cautious tactics could not prevent dissension was the best evidence that Republicanism, muddled and frustrated as it may be, still has plenty of political vitality. In far off Vermont, grey, bespectacled Governor George D. Aiken, who has been boomed by his New England neighbors as another budget-balancing Presidential possibility, took occasion to attack the party's present leadership and to demand, instead of a creed, an end to the age-old rotten borough representation of the South in Republican national conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from...
...been decided the facial postures of Drenchers Litvinoff and Eden (TIME, Nov. 22, p. 21) are not due to any political, social, or cultural affiliations of either, but rather to the stage of tea drinking reached by each. It would seem that "Red Litvinoff" is on his first cautious sip from a full cup of tea while "Tory Eden" is draining the dregs. Let TIME'S Editor try and finish a cup of tea without putting his nose into...
...diplomacy is quite as big a prob-lem as neutrality to churchmen. Secretaries Diffendorfer and Shaw were cautious indeed about condemning Japanese aggression in China. In the sight of God, Japanese souls are quite as good as Chinese souls, and the autonomous Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church has its own Japanese bishop and 20,000 faithful. Said the secretaries: "It must be remembered that the open sympathy of America for China and the statements and resolutions from this country arouse antagonism in the minds of many Japanese, and, as a matter of course, the position of American missionaries is made more...