Word: cautious
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Coffee and Doughnuts. In breeding, connections and political outlook, Bok combines solidity to please the old guard and cautious liberalism to please at least some of the new. Of a Philadelphia Main Line family, he is the great-grandson of Cyrus H.K. Curtis, founder of Curtis Publishing, grandson of Edward William Bok, one of the first editors of the Ladies' Home Journal, son of a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, and son-in-law of Swedish Sociologist Gunnar Myrdal...
...Israeli scholars, who studied the find for more than two years before making their announcement, were understandably cautious. What they uncovered and authenticated is the first firm physical evidence of an actual crucifixion in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although history records that this form of punishment was continued by the Romans until the 4th century A.D. (when it was finally outlawed by the Emperor Constantine I, who legalized Christianity in the empire), the only previous physical evidence of crucifixion was extremely tenuous. It consisted of a few bones, excavated in Italy and Rumania, containing holes in the forearms and heels...
...Professors at the Law School were cautious about discussing the conspiracy charges yesterday. However, one point of agreement was that the case is based on clearly criminal charges and not ideological issues...
...mannered converter to a great Middle-Eastern religion, preaches a never-ending sermon for Love, God, and the Eternal Life. Webber and Rice fight the traditional characterization by being anti-traditional: they put Jesus (rather uncertainly) into the role of a mass-culture hero, make Judas a sort of cautious road-manager, cast Mary Magdalene as a groupie in love with Christ, and Simon Zelotes as a politico who wants to co-opt Christ into a revolution against the Roman occupation. The point of all this is to make it clear by analogy that Jesus...
...Though cautious about calling it a complete recovery, doctors are understandably elated by Matthew's progress, which could make him the first person ever to survive a documented case of rabies. But they are uncertain whether to credit the vaccine or his medical management for the apparent recovery. The two other Americans who contracted rabies last year were also treated with anti-rabies vaccine. Both died...