Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he knows the rules so well, and is so cautious about breaking them. Influence of Lowell and Jarrell have been absorbed and should be purged; the relation to some of Lowell's hospital poems, like "A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich," is too evident. And his literary interest in madness leads him into a crude final section about Christopher Smart, which is regrettable...
...champion won the fight in the eighth, ninth, and tenth, as he handed Tiger the first flooring of his career. The other twelve rounds were too cautious for the fans, and only Griffith's vociferous mother maintained an enthusiastic chatter throughout...
Galbraith acknowledged that the State Department occasionally "responds to suggestions for keeping peace with cautious aproval. But not for years has it been imagined that a Secretary of State could be that source of any such suggestion...
...Harvard are unlikely to sell you on the subject. Most of the professors are good though not often brilliant in their fields, and few lecture well. Boyd Irven DeVore, William W. Howel and one or two others are both good and entertaining teachers, but most are both dry and cautious...
...most cautious and experienced pilots have been known to make just such errors. Example: the St. Louis crash that killed Astronauts Elliott See and Charles Bassett. Pilot See, having missed his first pass at the runway, told the tower that he planned a second instrument-landing approach in his T-38 jet trainer. He inexplicably continued to fly a visual pattern and made a wide turn just below the overcast, ran into a patch of fog, apparently lost orientation, slammed a building-and just barely missed demolishing the room where all the space capsules for the next four Gemini flights...