Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loggerheads with Britain over Cyprus, promptly drew up a communiqué praising E.O.K.A.'s "noble decision," then in a rush of doubt held it up for 24 hours on the ground that the leaflets might not be authentic. The British government's first reaction was equally cautious. "You must remember," said a British spokesman, "that this is only one man's offer, and it came from pieces of paper scattered in the street...
...delicate art of cleaning and restoring fading masterpieces was once the province of cautious artisans armed with little more than a magnifying glass, a loaf of fresh bread (without the crust) for gently erasing dirt, and perhaps some soapy water and varnish. Now a new breed of "scientific" restorers, equipped with a surgeon's tools, a chemist's swabs, and a burning curiosity about what lies under the next layer of paint, has moved into most of the world's great museums. At best, their efforts have resulted in such spectacular triumphs as the restoration of Leonardo...
...rest of the nation, Twining offered some comforting, professionally cautious optimism: regardless of Russian advances, the U.S. has "the Air Force we should have, at this time, today...
...Canadian Petrofina's president. Campo was sales manager for another big company (McColl-Frontenac) when he decided to set up his own firm in 1953. He tried to raise capital in Canada but failed to interest any of his fellow countrymen. Said Campo philosophically: "Canadians are too cautious." Finally, he got in touch with Petrofina's head office in Brussels and negotiated the backing...
Israel's volatile, visionary Premier and his painstaking, cautious and pedantic Foreign Minister have persistently irritated each other since the day when Sharett shivered and Ben-Gurion bubbled at the prospect of proclaiming a new Jewish state. Since then Sharett, who took time last week even in the middle of his resignation speech to correct a misspelling in his notes, has occupied himself with tempering Ben-Gurion's most headstrong policies. It was Sharett who successfully fought "B.-G.'s" plan to attack Gaza after the Arab murder of praying schoolchildren in Shafrir (TiME, April...