Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to his widely reported experience in foreign affairs, including official service in three administrations, Vance offered a proven diplomatic skill and a low-key professional style. The most frequent adjectives appearing in newspaper descriptions of Vance are "realistic", "cautious", "self-effacing", "a good manager", a "brilliant technocrat", "incredibly loyal". He has earned credentials for negotiating time and again, in Korea, Panama and Cyprus...
...second to the last hole was a little cautious and ended in the Valley of Sin. Thence he ran it up dead and as he scaled the bank the crowd stormed up after him and lined the edge of the green, barely restraining themselves. He holed his short one and the next instant there was no green visible, only a dark seething mass, in the midst of which was Bobby hoisted on fervent shoulders and holding his putter, "Calamity Jane," at arm's length over his head lest she crushed to death...
Anthony Flagg's Diary of the New Deal Years is engrossing for different reasons. The longest segment of the book, it painstakingly details a radical braintruster's reactions to the gradual development and stultification of the New Deal, and then America's cautious steps from isolationism to World War II. It is a stunningly realized picture of a brilliant, politically calculating President whose chief skill resides in getting all his various staffers, each in his own way, to serve his turn...
...selling foreign governments on a go-slow approach to economic growth in order to hold down world inflation. At the economic summit in Puerto Rico last June, President Gerald Ford and the government chiefs of Britain, West Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan agreed that they would follow cautious policies aimed at a moderate annual expansion of world production, say 5%, through 1980. Today it appears that the Administration was altogether too persuasive: in most industrial countries, as in the U.S., expansion has slowed to a crawl, and the quiet optimism of the Puerto Rico meeting has given...
...what about next year, when Beaulieu breaks into the varsity ranks? Sanders, like any coach, is cautious. "It's all up to Joe. The young man is obviously very talented," Sanders said yesterday. "He could be a starter right away, there's no question about that. The odds are on his side. But the other players won't step aside easily. He'll have too prove that he's worthy...