Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though carefully tamped down, as it had been, by all the cautious words in advance, an attitude of expectancy broke out in Geneva as the Big Four gathered around the hollow square of tables...
...there were clarifying their objectives (see box). Said the Soviet Union's Bulganin: "The lessening of tension should be the aim of this conference." Said Britain's Sir Anthony Eden: "It is reasonable to look for real, if modest, progress." The President of the U.S. was more cautious. "We ... go there with very hopeful attitudes," said Dwight Eisenhower, "but that hope has got to have greater food on which to nourish itself before it can become anything like expectation...
...Properly cautious, Miller says: "The rather stringent conditions for a favorable answer seem to be met and strongly suggest the possibility that the two pictographs actually depict . . . the supernova...
...cost of at least one implicit concession. His knockdown battle with the church became a wary standoff, not even mentioned in his speech. Said Hugo di Pietro, Peronista labor boss: "This is a time for reconciliation. There will be no church issue." Though most priests still wore cautious mufti in the streets (Argentines vied in trying to spot them by their black socks and clumsily knotted neckties), some ventured boldly out in cassocks. Most of the arrested priests were hastily freed. The government sent policemen to guard churches, including those burned by angry Peronista mobs after the revolt...
...four rounds on San Francisco's tough, tree-lined Olympic Club links, the "Mechanical Man" from Texas had posted a score of 287-seven over par. The fifth U.S. Open title that he wanted so much was all but in the record books. But Ben Hogan was too cautious to accept congratulations: out there on that tight, demanding course, a couple of contenders were still playing, and he well knew anything could happen...