Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Such bright youngsters, the fruit of rising admission standards, are all for such unexceptionable American values as peace, equality and freedom. They just want to carry them out. So they picket or parade for disarmament or civil rights, and the really curious thing is their political style-"restrained, reflective, cautious, intellectual and even pedantic...
...cautious Soviets would not go that far, insisted on the predated appointment to limit the term to four more years...
...Lord Jeffs were hit hard by graduation losses, but they will be no pushover nonetheless. Amherst plays a very slow, cautious, ball-control brand of basketball with lot of zone pressing. The Jeffs know this system well, and so the Crimson cannot afford to make as many mistakes as it could against a more free-wheeling attack...
Though Harold Macmillan's government says it is eager to grant Kenya its independence as soon as possible, such problems as defining its frontiers and drawing up an acceptable constitution now seem certain to delay nationhood until mid-1964. Renison favored a cautious approach to Uhuru. But Whitehall plainly felt that he was too unpopular to sell it to the Africans or to hold together the uneasy coalition of Kenya's deeply antagonistic political parties, Kenyatta's KANU and Ronald Ngala's KADU. To succeed Renison, Duncan Sandys picked a man with a better chance...
...Conflict. One was James Webb, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. A former Director of the Budget under Harry Truman, Webb, 56, has a cautious eye where money is concerned. He claims to be satisfied with the progress of the $20 billion moon-flight program. Says Webb: "We have not slipped our target dates...