Word: cautiousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Except in dire emergencies the pilots of U.S. commercial jets are far too cautious to try blind landings with zero-zero visibility. When weather conditions at their target runways are worse than 200-½ (200ft. ceiling, half-mile visibility), they are diverted to the nearest usable airport, which may be hundreds of miles away. The system is remarkably safe; during 1963 no fatal accident to a scheduled airline was caused by bad landing visibility. But passengers who were taken to Montreal instead of New York were seldom grateful, and airlines suffered financially. The Federal Aviation Agency figures that weather delays...
...However cautious such gestures may seem, they are fatal. Once the sexes recognize each other nominally, it is virtually impossible to keep them from wandering closer and closer together. Although Columbia's classes are still largely all-male, the daily newspaper The Spectator admitted Barnard journalists for the first time this year. Pembroke and Brown just decided to make some common dining arrangements. The University of Pennsylvania this month is completing the merger of its male and female student governments...
...girls who meet at least once a week for dinner at a hideaway about halfway between both campuses. Seems that it's strictly platonic. U.S. campus mores being what they are, Vaya may be somewhat oldfashioned. But then, Yale has always been a blend of solid tradition and cautious innovation...
...frolicking porpoises disturb the serenity of the Gulf Stream. But there are days, and plenty of them, when the east wind rises and turns the 160-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau into one of the meanest, choppiest patches of water anywhere. Then small-craft warnings go up, and cautious skippers stick to sailing olives in a cozy yacht-club...
...wildly profligate with that -Saud has repeatedly landed himself and his country so deeply in trouble that only Crown Prince Feisal, as his able longtime Premier, could bail him out. Then, when the immediate difficulty blew over, Saud sought to resume absolute power and cancel Feisal's cautious reforms. Just three months ago, Saud attempted a quick military grab (TIME, Jan. 3), which fizzled when he could not even trust the royal guard to back...