Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twice bitten, thrice cautious. "We're in better shape than we've ever been" was all that Shelby would say last week on the eve of the new season's first big sports-car race-the 24-hour Daytona Continental. Gone were the six Ford GTs that competed at Le Mans last year, replaced by five $100,000 Mark II prototypes, each only 40 in. high but with 475 honest horses under its hood. The cars had undergone seven months of testing: each engine had been run for 48 hours on a dynamometer, computers had been...
...Princeton game started sluggishly, with both teams playing cautious ball-control basketball, and after 14 minutes of play the score was only 17-17. Then Sedlacek took over. He scored twice in two minutes on three point plays, hit a long jumper and three foul shots to put Harvard in front at halftime, 36 to 25. Sedlacek had 20 points during the first half...
After extensive studies of mines and natural caverns, the Federal Geological Survey concluded that compressed-air storage of electricity was not only practical but could be cheaper than water storage. An association of German power companies has already given cautious approval to the plan, and Martini is currently consulting with both French and German public power companies that are interested in trying...
...opinions on every imaginable subject; many of his 156 dissents later became U.S. Supreme Court doctrine. Traynor is aptly called "a law professor's judge"-he writes not only acute, balanced opinions but reams of scholarly law-review articles as well. Most important, he is undaunted by the cautious rule of stare decisis (adhere to precedents). Always he asks: what is the fair, practical policy for today...
...intellectuals in Italy contributed essays to a book called The Dialogue Tested. There have been symposiums involving Marxist and Christian intellectuals at Frankfurt and Tutzing in Germany, Salzburg and Prague. None of this changes the ugly reality that the church under Communism is still persecuted; yet there is a cautious measure of hope in the fact that at least a few Marxists want to converse with Christians rather than silence them...