Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite such notes of cheer, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which has frequently disagreed with the economic views of the FRB, remained cautious. While recovery is undoubtedly under way, said the New York bank, the vigor and steadiness of the uptrend is still uncertain...
Similarly, as the son of a professional gambler with a tragic genius for bucking a pair of aces against three deuces, California's Brown is perhaps the most cautious bet hedger in U.S. politics, rarely moves without holding a Pat hand. Running for one of the nation's biggest administrative jobs, he is a second-rate administrator with a notorious inability to make decisions. "He has limitless energy in meeting people but not the energy to cope with issues," says a top California Democrat. Adds a close friend lamely: "While...
...leader," he recalls. He won first prize in a grade school oratorical contest, ended his speech with the deathless words: "Give me liberty or give me death!" That promptly got him dubbed Patrick Henry Brown-and he has been Pat Brown ever since. But leadership had its problems for cautious Pat Brown. He was easily the best-liked kid at San Francisco's Lowell High School, served as cheerleader and wanted desperately to be elected president of the student body. "But the captain of the football team was running," says Brown, "and I was afraid he would beat...
...most successful bridge players are neither the relentlessly bold nor the incorrigibly careful, but those who know, through a fine combination of card sense, experience and clear thinking, when to be bold and when to be cautious. Old Pro Charles Goren, apostle of point-count bidding, has made many a bold thrust over the years, but in the American Contract Bridge League's yearly Life Masters Pair tournament at Bal Harbour, Fla. last week, he showed that caution some times pays...
...high-ceilinged map room of the Defense Ministry in -Baghdad, Premier Abdul Kareem el-Kassim continued to issue, in his own cautious way, the soothing statements he has been making since the day of his lightning coup. "We are pragmatic people trying to do the best for our country," said he. "We cannot be qualified as Socialists or anything else. Our tendencies should be judged by our actions...