Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Masters reactions to the plan ranged from ostensible indifference to cautious pessimism. Only one Master indicated that he might favor a trial period of Harvard-Radcliffe interhouse if financial problems could be solved...
...precisely because of "these people," said Johnson, that many Republicans are going to vote Democratic. "It is not backlash," he said. "That is gone. It is not frontlash. It is the smearlash. Because when people get desperate they get dangerous, and when they get dangerous they are not cautious. And when they get to fearing and doubting and smearing-why, even some of their own people don't want to go along with them...
Spreading the Risks. Always cautious, Chartered has taken care not to be left as a ruined relic of empire. Ever since taking office in 1962, the company's president, Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans, 70, a former Conservative M.P., has been busily spreading the risks: of total investments of $186 million, only $32 million is now in Northern Rhodesia. The wide-ranging portfolio includes, in addition to British companies, minority holdings in South African gold mines, Italian rubber manufacturing, Australian and New Zealand aluminum, Canada's Hudson's Bay Co., and several U.S. companies. Nevertheless, Chartered is bracing...
Smooth Landing. Five chase planes circled overhead and two helicopters hovered solicitously, as the B70 began the take-off roll for its first cautious flight. Just 33 seconds after Chief Test Pilot Al White released the brakes, Cecil was airborne, climbing steeply. The stiltlike forward landing gear retracted properly, but the main wheel gear jammed, halfway up. Pilot White put the wheels down again and switched to an alternate flight plan. There was no hope now of passing the speed of sound on the first try; supersonic flight is not for airplanes with wheels dangling...
...there will be many other cautious flights before the B70 starts its lifework: exploring the swarming problems of a Mach 3 airliner. And if such a passenger plane ever goes into service, much of the credit will go to the technological innovations that were first tested by Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent...