Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...richness of the new territory that opened before them. TV screens worked overtime showing the subtle differences between top ribs and shell bones. Newspaper columnists turned epicure overnight, and at the Times Bookshop in Wigmore Street, the 93-year-old Mrs. Beeton's Cookbook, with its cautious presumption that eight pounds of steak should be enough to serve eight persons, once more took top place in the interest of browsers...
...General Leslie R. Groves, vice president of Remington Rand, wartime head of the Manhattan Project, who had appointed Oppenheimer director at Los Alamos in 1943. Groves was cautious. Oppenheimer had done a "magnificent job" at Los Alamos, but "you must remember that he left my control shortly after the war was over." While Oppenheimer "did not always keep the faith with respect to the strict interpretation of the security rules," neither did other leading scientists...
Snead's most disastrous performance was undoubtedly the famed 18th hole at Spring Mill near Philadelphia in the Open of 1939. It has become a classic of a kind. His first shot hooked into the rough and left him with a sandy lie. Instead of playing a cautious game, Sam took a custom-made 2½ wood from his bag and aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled...
...once, Bob Young had been too cautious in a public statement. He had predicted that he would win the New York Central proxy fight by 700,000 to 1,000,000 votes. His actual margin: 1,067,-ooo, or 267,000 more than the disputed 800,000 shares voted in his favor by Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson. Central President William White, conducting his last stockholders' meeting in a hot, sticky office at the Albany railroad station, with blinds drawn for an air-raid drill, sadly made the official announcement that Young had bombed...
...Britain, who must lead Western Europe into convertibility, is understandably cautious; she was once badly burned. In 1946 Britain borrowed $3.75 billion from the U.S. on the Treasury's condition that she would make sterling fully convertible a year later. This premature attempt was a disaster because the pound, officially pegged at $4.03, was far overvalued...