Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only source of hard information was the disjointed communiqués served up on Radio Indonesia between intervals of music. Under Sukarno, there have been only two power centers in the country, the armed forces and the 3,500,000 members of the Indonesian Communist Party, led by cagey, cautious D. N. Aidit, who was off on a junket to Red China when the shooting started...
...Your Minds." That happy event would never have taken place, says Scott Skinner, "if we had really understood the problems and not just gone blundering ahead." Actually, Ike's reply to Skinner's letter back in 1961 was little more than a note of cautious interest written, in fact, by Eisenhower's secretary. But it was enough for Skinner, 41, who teamed up with Insurance Broker John Rosenkrans, 40, a fellow vestryman at Seneca Falls First Presbyterian Church. Together they sought support of state Presbyterian Church officials who, Skinner recalls, told them: "You two guys...
...normally cautious Stephen J. M. Robbins of UCLA, the outgoing president of NSA, led the other main attack from the left. His proposal that NSA back a halt in the bombings regardless of the outcome of negotiations lost by a narrow margin...
...congress was cautious on Vietnam, it was daring on other foreign policy issues. The delegates unreservedly condemned the American intervention in the Dominican Republic and asked the U.S. to "initiate and support any action authorized by international law to bring an end to the policy of apartheid in South Africa and South West Africa, not excluding collective military action...
...Hope? Such criticism?coming mostly from Catholic perfectionists who want an overnight change in the church ?appears somewhat overanxious. Paul's penchant for warning against excess seems to be largely an expression of his cautious and gloomy nature. Last week, for example, on a visit to the catacombs of Domitilla, he compared the persecuted Christians of old to those who today live in "nations with atheistic and totalitarian" governments. "I sometimes wonder if Paul isn't lacking in the virtue of hope," says one Jesuit...