Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week Harold Macmillan's Cabinet agreed that Britain should at least sit in on the negotiations, and even that decision marked a minor triumph for Home. In a two-hour session with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the dogged Scot won U.S. acceptance of Britain's cautious condition that "participation as an observer is not a commitment." U.S. officials are hopeful nonetheless that when the time comes to sign the treaty establishing MLF, Britannia will want to join. "After all," hinted a British diplomat last week, "we hardly need to sit in on the talks just...
...espionage and treason. This was irony indeed, since Novotny himself was a ringleader in the 1952 blood bath. Old Stalinist Novotny could not shrug off his own guilt so easily, nor could he escape blame for the country's current economic woes. In the prevailing mood of cautious destalinization among Czech comrades, Novotny himself might be the next to go. For the first time he had a serious rival. Replacing Siroky as Premier was Josef Lenart, 40, a wartime underground leader with no embarrassing Stalinist history. Moreover, Lenart's diploma came from Moscow's own Central Committee...
...enjoyments which government employment has forced him to curtail only minimally is his garrulousness. When he first accepted the appointment as Ambassador, "I knew that I would have to be much more cautious in what I said." But this restriction has been much less irksome than he had feared. Reischauer estimates that he is still able to express openly about 95 per cent of what he would like to. But he admits with a boyish grin that on occasion he will preface a comment with "Well, I can't answer that as Ambassador, but if you want an answer...
...Cautious Captain...
Captain Bill Southmayd, though, was correctly cautious: "We just don't know how good this squad is." Yovicsin backed up Southmayd's estimate, noting that it was difficult to predict how well the line would hold in a game and that sophomore halfbacks can't be judged before the season begins...