Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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pettifogger. n. one given to quibbling over insignificant details. "a ringing indictment of all the proud and cautious pettifoggers who could agree only on what could not be done...
...shortages of housing or steel that characterized the recoveries of 1949 and 1955, and the big bulges in capital spending that contributed to the price spiral of 1955. This year, manufacturers are operating some 20% below capacity, largely because they added so much capacity in the recent past. And cautious consumers still have their purse strings tied, partly out of persistent fear of unemployment. This apprehension has also moderated the "cost-push" pressures of rising wages. Increases in wages, which averaged 5.1% in 1957, have slipped steadily to 2.5% this year, reflecting labor leaders' new emphasis on winning...
...Crimson worked out in the rain yesterday, but for the first time Coach Bruce Munro permitted a few rays of cautious optimism to brighten the gloom. "You've improved a hundred-fold in the last two days." Munro told the highly touted team which until this week had looked disappointing in practice. "Now you're beginning to play soccer...
...gives the student no chance to improve in his ability to argue a point, to develop his responses, to write lucidly. Also the student feels a great pressure to write a safe, conservative paper when it is the only one in the course. He tends to be thorough and cautious, not daring to take a chance on a dubious theory or a fresh approach. Too much of the grade depends on the term paper for the student to feel free...
...John Kennedy, it was an arduous week of activity. It began with word of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's setback in West Germany. Then came the news of Dag Hammarskjold's death. The next day, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko began their cautious, first-round sparring about Berlin. Across the U.S., like malevolent mist, drifted the fallout from the Russian nuclear test shots, which by week's end had reached...