Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Self-imposed Defeat. Johnson stuck it out, and in the end got a better deal. His offer of an unconditional, if partial, bombing pause, backed up by his renunciation of a second term, was an astonishingly risky move for a notoriously cautious operator. Having gambled so much, the President was not interested in showcase talks that would impress the world but accomplish little. Consequently, he considered it important not merely that the talks should get started, but also that they should get started in the proper way, without allowing the U.S. to labor under the considerable disadvantage of negotiating...
Visitors are always told to keep back from the cages, but Britain's Prince Philip was too curious to be cautious. He pressed up close to the bar for a good look at the orangutans during his visit to the London Zoo. At that precise moment, one of the apes-Napoleon by name-relieved himself in the direction of His Royal Highness. Later, at a luncheon for the Royal Zoological Society, Philip apologized for "any faint whiff of animal which might be emanating from my end of the room. We have just been visiting some orangutans," said...
...lack of a record promises to be no hindrance, since Trudeau will be going up against another relatively un tested politician: Tory Leader Robert Stanfield, 54, the onetime Premier of Nova Scotia who succeeded former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker as party leader last September. Stanfield is cautious and reserved, but a proven vote getter and administrator who served an unprecedented four terms as Nova Scotia's Premier. In the few months since he assumed the Tory leadership, he has restructured and strengthened the party organization in Ottawa and the country's 264 election districts. Still, most Canadians feel...
...Some, peripheral in power but not in the power of suggestion, attempted to make the hospital a tool of planned parenthood associaties. It is difficult to get a representative or quotable statement of the attitudes of the doctors associated With Cambridge City, though the atmosphere might be described as "cautious" grading into indifference. The political fate of the birth control issue of the projected East Cambridge Clinic (to meet the unsatisfied demand for medical attention) will be instructive to watch. One informed source said of the 25 potential associates, "They are universally frightened of the birth control issue." Whether this...
...partial bombing pause, life north of the 20th parallel-where 90% of the North Vietnamese live and where the U.S. has ceased attacking-has taken on a new and freer rhythm. After three years of fairly steady air strikes by U.S. planes, the North Vietnamese, though still basically too cautious to change the mode of life that they have devised to counter the air raids, have accepted the pause as a welcome breather (see following pages...