Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international astigmatism." At the very least, it questions the assumption that Peking is fundamentally reckless, belligerent and expansionist-the axiom that was used to justify the "containment" policy pursued by the U.S. in Asia for 20 years. In fact, serious China watchers have long regarded Peking as extremely cautious in its foreign policy decisions...
Died. Rabbi Sasson Khadouri, 91, longtime leader of Iraq's beleaguered Jews; in Baghdad. Greeting foreign visitors with what one American correspondent called the "cautious dignity of a tightrope walker," the Grand Rabbi presided over the decline of Iraq's Jewish community from an estimated 150,000 in 1947 to fewer than 3,000. Though Khadouri found it good politics to oppose Zionism, the Iraq government made life difficult for his people by executing or imprisoning many of them as "Israeli spies...
...supposed to be wary," said ADB President Takeshi Watanabe, "about getting involved in projects in the three states of what used to be called, and is now being so called once more, Indochina. Some translate wary as 'no.' My dictionary suggests a better definition: 'cautious...
Penultimate Question. The Supreme Court's decision will not start a rash of executions-at least, not immediately. Mindful of the many appeals pending in other capital cases, Governors in the 38 states that still retain the death penalty took cautious positions. California's Governor Ronald Reagan went on record again favoring the death penalty, but none of his state's 99 condemned men and women are expected to go to the gas chamber before late summer at the earliest. Ohio's Governor John Gilligan refused to be prodded at all by the court...
...joys, his ability to love, to laugh, and, most important for us, to be creative. By protecting himself against the hell within himself, he also cuts, himself off from the heaven within. In the extreme instance, we have the obsessional person, flat, tight, rigid, frozen, controlled, cautious, who can't laugh or play or love, or be silly or trusting or childish. His imagination, his intuitions, his softness, his emotionality tend to strangulated or distorted...