Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first run and tumbled out of the race. Then, out of the snow flurries came Barbara, 21. Cutting corners dangerously close, she whizzed home with the fastest time in the first of the two heats. Refusing to look at her competitors lest their difficulties make her "too cautious," she again went all out to register a total time that was just .02 sec. better than Runner-Up Danielle Debernard of France. It was the first gold medal won by any American in Alpine skiing in 20 years...
More important, there is an abiding though cautious sense of fairness in blue-collar workers which emerges if one can just clear away the ideological rubric. Unlike many of the people holding positions of power, who feel they must view others at a distance which they think befits their stature, most workers prefer to deal strictly on a man-to-man basis. A demanding but even handed code of friendship prevails. A mainland Chinese appearing in their midst would be treated no differently than any other man if they could only see he was a man, and not just...
...country appears to be constantly in a state of semi-mobilization, at least to American eyes. Everywhere there are always soldiers: some obviously on duty, their Uzzi sub-machine guns in their hands, very cautious, very intent: but most simply milling in the streets, and always several "tramping" on any given road at any given time. This seeming paradox of soldiers who never seem to be on duty (it is, in fact, a misleading impression), is a fitting metaphor for the compromise which Israel attempts to make between life-styles of war and peace: to live like the city-state...
...trees, and everybody starts putting up his hooch. I pull out my hammock. "No hammocks," says Sergeant Henry A. Johnson, a Virginian who has a master's degree in communications. "The C.O. doesn't allow them. Too vulnerable to mortars. The C.O. believes in being cautious...
...uniqueness of the Science Center's construction prompted the consultation with University experts. "It is one of the largest buildings of its type," Hutchinson said yesterday. "The Harvard engineers on the project are just incredibly cautious. They want to make sure to cover all their bets...