Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ability. Although he has not had extensive experience directly in the field of foreign relations, I feel sure that his common sense and good judgment will serve the country well." Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called Rogers "an excellent choice." Years ago Nixon said of his friend: "He is more cautious than I am as to what ought to be done in most instances. I will take chances and move aggressively sometimes when he would not. This is good, for I know that he can always see the pitfalls of any course of action...
...thrusts of American intentions. In one capital after another, Russian diplomats anxiously sought out their U.S. counterparts in informal attempts to learn how the policies and personalities of the new Administration may affect relations between the world's two superpowers. On the official level, Moscow has adopted a cautious wait-and-see attitude toward President-elect Nixon, despite his reputation there as a hardliner. As a West German diplomat noted: "For Khrushchev, Nixon was the epitome of the professional antiCommunist. But his successors evidently are smart enough to avoid anything that will turn Khrushchev's assessment into...
...most cases, the precise identity of the affliction and the microbe causing it was unknown. Cautious doctors described their patients' illnesses simply as "URD" or "URI" (for upper respiratory disease, or upper respiratory infection) and let it go at that. Whatever its nature, the illness was emptying schools and offices, stripping military installations of active-duty personnel, and decimating Broadway casts. Jane Morgan in the title role and eight other players in Mame had to yield their places to understudies. The cast of George Ml had five out. Playing the barber in Man of La Mancha, Leo Blum became...
Some economists still tend to be cautious about capital spending for next year. But businessmen make the decisions, and they are reacting to expanding order books and rising wages, which since March 1966 have gone up 12% to an average $2.92 per hour in the past two years. As a result, managers are increasing their investment in more efficient and possibly labor-saving plants and machines...
...taken the SFAC up on its cautious wording: if the ROTC courses could be made more academically respectable, and if Harvard could find some way of controlling them, then, the CEP is saying, they should be given academic credit and ROTC can stay at Harvard more or less unchanged...