Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Field Marshal Rommel was a sick and dispirited man commanding a weakened army, Churchill revived the myth of the invincible Desert Fox so that Monty would have to deal with a worthy foe. Even with the stage so cleverly set, Thompson charges that Monty still fought a static, overly cautious battle, sacrificing far too many...
Though General Eisenhower himself complained that Monty was a prickly and secretive subordinate, and General Omar Bradley accused him of being too cautious, nobody can question that he won an overwhelming victory at El Alamein. And while the British had numerical superiority in men and tanks, it was no staged battle that was fought on the hot desert sands. It was a nightmarish engagement that was won eventually with British guts and skill. Even Rommel himself was appalled by the fierceness of the fighting. He wrote: "Rivers of blood were poured out over miserable strips of land which, in normal...
Perhaps prompted by the complaints and uncertainty, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. William Stewart, has taken a cautious position on the spray. In a letter to state and local health authorities, he warned that Mace's prolonged irritant ability "clearly increases the possibility of more than transient effects to the exposed individuals unless treatment is prompt." He added that further study would be necessary "to determine possible chronic effects." A spokesman...
...struggle for liberalization, in essence, is just another manifestation of the age-old conflict between two opposed mentalities; to speak very broadly, those of the "Bureaucrat" and the "Intellectual." The Bureaucrat is stolid, excessively rationalistic and cautious about accepting change. This is no accident, as administrative structures tend to select precisely such men for their top posts, weeding out those who do not fit the pattern. The Bureaucrat is therefore most at home in a politically repressive system, in which his power is least questioned. The Intellectual, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with unfettered human expression in both...
GRADUATE STUDENTS traditionally have been cautious in their political activities. They will not risk alienating faculty members whose recommendations could mean the difference between success and failure as a political scientist...