Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union's restraint is probably also more a matter of necessity than choice. The Russians do not want a war with their giant neighbor and have traditionally been very cautious in their relations with China...
Reassuring the Soviets of U.S. even-handedness has been an aim of the Administration since its recognition of Peking. Promised Carter two weeks ago: "We will be cautious in not trying to have an unbalanced relationship [with] China and the Soviet Union." But his willingness to let Teng denounce the Soviets on U.S. soil and the use of the buzzword hegemony will now make that balancing act more difficult. Just how much was a subject of disagreement. A White House aide insisted that Carter believes there will be no effect on U.S.-Soviet relations...
...chances to buy a now amplified selection of interchangeable junk mementos - the grinning peanut in still more awful avatars, Billy T shirts, yardsticks, local cookbooks (revealing how deeply the taste-destroying shortcut has driven in its charge south). Carter family members who have stayed on move more carefully now, cautious of the speed with which packs of strangers can gather at a glimpse...
...huge contracts on fading veterans. But Islander General Manager William Torrey concluded that the future lay in the future: "You can't build a championship club out of someone else's rejects." So the Islanders searched the amateur ranks for talented youngsters and set them to playing cautious, defense-minded hockey until they matured. Says Torrey: "We had to play kids, and at first it was a disaster, but it paid...
...glib anwer to the old knotty problem of who will be the judge's judge--and the knots bulge in the play he built around it, rather slickly labeled a "passionate dark comedy" by the Boston Shakespeare Company for their well-oiled production. Critics have typically been more cautious, calling it a "problem play," but that doesn't answer anything. Say it's a play with comic form but tragic content, if you must...