Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder declared flatly that the new government would not risk straining its ties with the U.S., and later flew to Washington to reaffirm Germany's cautious support for "policies of motion" to ease East-West tensions, to which De Gaulle and Adenauer are both opposed...
Sheaf of Secrets. The Sino-Soviet ex changes are reaching such a point of bitterness that in earlier and simpler times, both nations would have been mobilizing their armies. Yet, for all the intemperateness of its language, Peking has been notably cautious about getting deeply involved beyond Red China's own frontiers-in line with the Red Chinese axiom, "Despise the enemy strategically, but respect him tactically." The West got an inside look at Red China's perspective on great-power conflicts back in 1961, when U.S. agents obtained possession of a 40,000-word sheaf of secret...
...always, McNamara was crisp and decisive, clicking off facts with computerlike precision. But candid as he was, he was still cautious. And in many instances, what he said could only serve as a launching point for what he did not say. Thus, the real, breathtaking picture of U.S. nuclear power could only be seen with the help of other, previously published facts, of earlier testimony before Congress, and of educated estimates and extrapolation...
...enjoyments which the government has managed 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...
Operation Triangular. Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro may have been less surprised than many of his countrymen. He is a cautious man who refrains from making important moves until he feels sure the odds are with...