Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal counsel for the Justice Department, he alienated many with his hard-line approach in such matters as the Washington Mayday demonstrations. He was questioned closely by the liberals about his efforts in his home town of Phoenix, Ariz., to keep Negroes legally barred from some public places. His cautious reply: "With respect to the public-accommodations ordinance, I think my views have changed." He was adamant on busing, stating that the practice "for the purpose of achieving a racial balance where you do not have a dual school system is not desirable...
...delegation was clearly intent on following the cautious line laid down by Premier Chou En-lai for Peking's first representatives at the U.N. in 21 years. Quoting an old Chinese proverb. "Be careful when facing a problem," Chou declared in an interview: "We do not have too much knowledge about the U.N., and are not too conversant with the new situation that has risen in the U.N. We must be very cautious. This does not mean, however, that we do not have self-confidence. It means that we must not be indiscreet and haphazard...
Photography has long been alien to the Fogg's didactic galleries of art classics. Whether this embargo was nurtured by cautious skeptics of the photographic medium as an artistic medium--cautious guardians of academic certainty--or by myopic observers of artistic development, its repeal is apparent in the Fogg's first representative showing of their own photographic collections. Master Photographs asks its audience to view these works on a level of creative competence equal to that of the paintings lining neighboring walls, but not always with the same aesthetic semantics applied to painting...
...without these key players, the Crimson was unable to mount a sustained attack in the first half. The defense retreated in front of Princeton's long ball offense. Harvard's line was overly cautious and unable to get passing combinations started...
...University daily is carrying a 98 year unblemished record into today's contest. "When you've got a tradition like this hanging over your head, you've got to be an itsy-bitsy more cautious," coach Dake said in an exclusive interview last night. "But the boys are higher than a Georgia pine," Dake added...