Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Virginia to break away from the Confederacy and become a separate state. While he did wonders in boosting morale after Bull Run and turning an undisciplined mob into an army, McClellan, only 34 at the time of his appointment, did little to justify the nickname of "young Napoleon." Excessively cautious to begin with, he was reduced to timidity by his primitive version of the CIA, whose intelligence reports pictured small, ill-equipped Southern armies as fearsome hordes. "If General McClellan does not want to use the Army," Lincoln said at one point, "I would like to borrow...
...ends up tamely with all the conventional comedy answers and one big question: What lace-curtain gentility, what damnable tact keeps lonor Tracy from finally ripping through? The book earns its solid quota of middle-volume laughter, but its uthor remains cursed by an un-Irish 'emon of cautious restraint...
Thomson also said that in dealing with China, "it is essential to distinguish between China's highly bellicose words and her highly bellicose words and her highly cautious deeds...
...Fiedler does have a knack of presenting provocative material in such a rich context that it rarely fails to stimulate the reader's imagination. He is the antithesis of the cautious academic reading from yellowed lecture notes. In fact, a good case could be made that The Return of the Vanishing American is really a sly anti-Ph.D. thesis...
...Louis Archdiocese is traditionally represented by a cardinal, it was only natural that the Pope would pick Ritter's successor with considerable care. Nonetheless, the delay in filling the see was unusually long. One reason may be the dissension within the archdiocese between advocates of renewal and more cautious elements, which began even before Ritter's death. In 1965, for example, a group of 30 priests and laymen drew up a sweeping reform program, including the creation of an archdiocesan synod to extend the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. Although sympathetic to the idea, Ritter felt that...