Word: cautiously
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Schuman later explained that any step toward "stability and authority" must be taken only through "democratic and parliamentary measures," but his "incautious remark" sounded like one more cautious invitation for a return of General Charles de Gaulle, 67, who sits in Mac-Arthurian solitude at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises waiting for the French Assembly to admit its own bankruptcy and send for him on his own terms...
...Census Bureau's cautious conclusion: men with better-than-average income "have the best chances of being selected as marriage partners"&$151;and, presumably, of maintaining the partnership...
...subjects, Dr. Price got virtually identical patterns. From those with rheumatic fever he got a different pattern. From tuberculosis victims it was different again, and so on down a long list of physical and mental illnesses, including cancer and various heart diseases. Though hopeful, Dr. Price and colleagues were cautious. It will probably take five years to decide whether the telltale test tubes are truthful, and whether they tell the same story to different physicians reading the results...
...defines the life that helped make him what he is-Billings' background affluent, Eastern, Harvard; Haislip's poor, Midwestern, school of hard knocks. But it is Haislip's mistress who finally tells Billings even more than he wants to know: "You're a saver. Cautious and careful . . . Not Hank. He wants things different. He's a breaker, and you know why? He wants to break things and set them up again so he can be a careful little saver instead of you." Whether the breakers or the savers will carry the day is a suspenseful...
...History of the English-Speaking Peoples in 1815, leaving Waterloo (reluctantly, it would seem) behind him to take on the task of shaping the whole course of the British Empire and the American Republic in the last century into one sonorous and coherent story. He succeeds magnificently. More cautious historians-the economic-theory men, the specialists in constitutional law, the nationalists-will cavil at Churchill's large-minded judgments. Yet this same generosity of spirit enables him to write of the American Civil War as the noblest war-one fought on sheer principle. Even Civil War buffs who know...