Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operatorless elevator, they have also developed a conditioned reflex. They instinctively slap any metal object-typewriter, watercooler, doorknob-with the flat of the hand before using. Otherwise, little blue sparks fly from fingertips and a nasty, if harmless, jolt runs up the arm. In fact, even the most cautious palm-slapper sometimes yields a small tingle...
...possible--at least now--on the subject of a "drama course" for credit, and Mr. Henning is incorrect in stating that anyone has made such a proposal. The Loeb Drama Center has not, the English Department has not, and, as I understand it, the CRIMSON'S affirmative editorial voiced cautious approval of such a project for future consideration. Dean Ford, Professor Alfred, and I have all noted some of the important problems which would have to be solved before any such suggestion could be made formally. Many of the objections raised by Mr. Henning are solid ones, and would certainly...
...stickler for detail, which sometimes made him seem petty. He was cautious about social entanglements, which made him seem cold. Despite five years as President Roosevelt's Chief of Staff, Marshall politely rebuffed F.D.R.'s attempts to be amiable, visited Hyde Park for the first time to attend Roosevelt's funeral. Even his kindness and humor were touched with irony. After a gracious hospital visit to the daughter of a friend, he wrote: "I round your company of fish, turtles and guppies quite fascinating-much more attractive than the average group I meet socially...
When his hangover fades on the morning after, the drunken driver of the night before may turn defensively argumentative. The cops, he usually claims, exaggerated his alcoholic difficulties. If he was lucky enough to escape a serious accident, and cautious enough not to submit his telltale breath to a drunk-ometer's measurement, he can often make his story stick...
Washington was cautiously optimistic -or was it optimistically cautious?-about the military coup in South Viet Nam. Everyone agreed that it was, indeed, a pity that President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu had to get murdered in the process. After the U.S. conferred diplomatic recognition on the generals' government, Dean Rusk said: "We think the new regime will be able to resolve the internal problems and unify the people...