Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dancing a stately minuet, Macmillan seemed to advance toward Europe one minute, then twirl and step backward the next. Was he being too cautious? "Forever Amber," sniffed the Liberal Party's peppery Lady Violet Bonham Carter, echoing the growing criticism of Mac's leadership in general. The British public now seemed squarely in favor of making common cause with the Europeans, was beginning to grumble as the government held back. Even the usually loyal London Times had stern words for the P.M.: "The government must set the pace . . . it must cease to shilly-shally . . . The pound is weak...
...gives the student no chance to improve in his ability to argue a point, to develop his responses, to write lucidly. Also the student feels a great pressure to write a safe, conservative paper when it is the only one in the course. He tends to be thorough and cautious, not daring to take a chance on a dubious theory or a fresh approach. Too much of the grade depends on the term paper for the student to feel free...
...business recovery, economists are fond of using the letter V to describe the pattern made on the graphs by a fast and vigorous comeback, the letter U to describe a slow one. Last week, for the first time since the 1960-61 recession began to wane, there were some cautious bets on V. On Wall Street the switch was reflected in growing confidence that the stock market is in for a new and sustained advance...
Cole's cautious optimism was a prime example of British understatement. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, the United Africa Co., giant Unilever has staked $373 million-nearly one-quarter of its total investment-on Africa. An empire in its own right, the United Africa Co. operates in 29 African countries, sells more than 4,000 items, ranging from "mammy cloths" (cotton prints) to bulldozers. It runs an assembly plant for General Motors in Nigeria, has its own fleet of river boats, and tends more than 418,000 acres of palm-tree plantation. In 1960, despite Africa's political...
Phillips, who is a national director of the Young Americans for Freedom and who served in various posts in the Nixon-Lodge campaign, is more cautious. "My chances depend on the appropriate combination of preparation and opportunities." Working hard to secure his position, the ultra-conservative student has traveled extensively in his search for votes...