Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picked up a copy of the Hearst New York Journal-American "Give yourself up," read an open letter to the Mad Bomber. "You will get a fair trial." George could not resist answering. The J-A continued to play him on the line; slowly George's cautious replies produced enough information to send Con Edison clerks scurrying through a mass of old "troublemaker" files. Sure enough, there was George's folder...
Startling Growth. For 1957 he ventured no crystal-gazing beyond a cautious prediction that "the nation's overall prosperity will be extended into the months ahead." But the Economic Report's special appendix on U.S. population trends peered two decades ahead, and what it saw was a period of startling growth that could well spur a major business expansion. Back in 1946, when U.S. population stood at 140 million, experts predicted that it would expand to 153 million in 1960, reach an ultimate peak of 165 million in 1990 or thereabouts. In fact, the population passed...
...good news side of the ledger, Humphrey and Brundage predicted a surplus at the close of business next June 30 of $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion (estimate last January: a cautious $435 million). How about a tax cut? Said Humphrey dourly: Not a chance...
Manager Marv Jenson saw the scrap with more cautious clarity. Across the ring he saw the lithe and light-foot memory of a great champion, the dark and dangerous shadow of a man who had once been the finest fist fighter of his generation. And Jenson worried lest Sugar Ray, at 36, reach back across the years for one of those wickedly coordinated punches that could end a fight in an instant. "Just keep going the way you have," he told his boy. "Be careful. Don't open...
...that while Britain, France, and Holland had been giving independence to 600 million people in former colonial possessions, fierce anti-colonial feelings had been building up in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. He warned against steps that might be taken in these countries as imperialism, and was especially cautious about the forms foreign economic aid should take...