Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's offices. I think now that I have two-and-a-half years perspective on the whole occasion (laughter), I think what I can say is that all I regret about those years when we were running The Crimson is that we were or that I was excessively cautious, too afraid that being an irritant to the University was something bad, that if those running the institution were upset with the paper that was a sign that something was wrong in our coverage of the news. And I think that all of us who were there in those days...
...people with appeals based on simple, old-fashioned virtues like trust and decency has been shattered. I had thought that, as an underdog, I would impress people with my determination and sincerity." If he had it to do again, McGovern said, "I'd be more discreet, more cautious about baring my soul." He summed up by insisting: "I don't think the American people got a true picture of my campaign." Of course, the reverse may have been true-that too many Americans got a reasonably clear picture of a well-meant but inept campaign. Or that...
...hands of a less positive narrator and a less compassionate judge of exceptional human conduct, the biography-might have suffered from myopic and a tendency towards authoritarianism. Bell, with his memory of his aunt, is privileged to add the leaven of personal recollection to his to his cautious, startling insights...
...months of martial law and the assassination attempt on his wife, when a man with a knife slashed the First Lady during a ceremony in a park near Manila (TIME, Dec. 11), clearly show in the deep lines of his face. Marcos said he had been a little more cautious of late: "The problem for the First Family is that you have no defense against a man who is prepared to die in an attempt on your life...
...Gerald Wasserburg jumped up from his fourth-row seat and practically pressed his nose against the TV screen to see the coloring for himself. NASA'S Egyptian-born geologist Farouk El Baz, who had helped train the astronauts, beamed proudly. Even the space agency's cautious Australian-born Geochemist Robin Brett exulted: "We have witnessed one of the important finds in Apollo geology...