Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures often appear blunt in their aloof individuality, the directness is modified by the lack of harsh edges. His surfaces are pleasing and receptive, especially the highly polished appearance of "Torso," whose edges are softened and very smooth. The softness is the redeeming quality in which we see a cautious hint of hope for human existence...
...overcome an emotional lightness that has not allowed him to move as quickly and as efficiently as he should. "Irvings is an emotional fencer, and he has tried to keep up his image from last year when be finished third in the Easterns. Consequently, he has been too cautious and too light," coach Marion said...
Most of the liberal luminaries in the Senate have been reluctant to take strong and effective stands against the war. Senator Muskie endorsed the Johnson war strategy by running on the 1968 Democratic ticket with Hubert Humphrey. Senator Kennedy, embroiled in his own personal and political problems, has been cautious in his criticism until very recently. Senator Fulbright, a lonely and powerful figure, has too often let his towering ego conflict with his political duty...
Pauper's Bequest. Though Nixon did not name him, the man he was answering is Wilbur Mills; the House Ways and Means Committee chairman has made plain his implacable opposition to revenue sharing. Normally as cautious in manner as he is with federal spending, Mills has become increasingly bitter over the economic picture presented in Nixon's budget as well as the political potential in the revenue-sharing plan. Mills believes that Nixon's deliberately expansionary budget would produce not the announced $11.6 billion deficit, but one of at least $24 billion and possibly as high...
...within the past two weeks, promising U.S. help in future negotiations if Egypt would extend the ceasefire. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, stretching the facts, told the Security Council that "some progress" had occurred in a series of talks conducted by U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring, giving Thant "grounds for cautious optimism." That also gave Sadat grounds to extend the ceasefire...