Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They were so cautious that when Sirica asked Stockham if the signature marks on the tape could only be produced by pushing tape recorder buttons by hand, he replied: "With a hand. Or with a stick." "But not a foot pedal?" Sirica asked. "Not with a foot pedal," Stockham declared. When the technicians completed their presentation, St. Clair grumped, "I think I'm going to talk to my own experts." Protested Bolt: "I thought we were your experts...
...thrust of his performances is one of cautious optimism: a guarded belief that conditions can improve. In Forever Young, he says...
Even so, Mallary did not think that the sum of evidence now justified impeachment. Some of his constituents were not so cautious. "Most people here are ready to impeach; we're not waiting for the evidence," declared Edith Hunter, a reporter for the Weathersfield Weekly, as she expressed the seething frustration of Mallary's listeners...
...first distinctive changes were cautious: fluttering, real-life lashes and movable glass eyes. Later, as the times grew more daring, belly buttons appeared between skimpy bikini halves; dimpled knees and smooth, fleshy thighs flashed below microminis; nipples poked through braless blouses. Even mannequins, it seems, keep up with the times...
...Kleppe, head of the Small Business Administration, does not fit the cautious mold of the Washington bureaucrat. A self-made North Dakota business success (Glass Wax), he keeps a pair of six guns mounted on an office wall, wears electric blue shirts with dazzling horseshoe cufflinks, speaks bluntly −and is now taking some perhaps inevitable lumps. Kleppe's most recent troubles began when he went to Congress to ask for an expansion of SB A lending authority from $4.3 billion to $6.6 billion. He ran into a barrage of allegations that suggested an embarrassing range of SBA malfeasance...