Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caution. Despite his mounting misfortunes, Ferries refused to change his daredevil racing style. "In this game," he explains, "you can't afford to be cautious. You just have to go as fast as you can." Now Ferries has finally found the control to match his speed. At Kitzbühel fort night ago, he ranked eighth in the slalom after a mediocre 77.2-sec. first pass at the course. On his second run, Ferries clocked a sizzling 69.7 sec.-fastest time of the day-to eke out a .7-sec. victory over France's Périllat. Last...
Germany moved into Belgium on Aug. 4-and the mistakes began soon thereafter. Until his death in 1913, Schlieffen had reiterated: "Make the right wing strong." But his successor, General Helmuth von Moltke, was a Christian Scientist, a cello player, and a cautious man: he weakened the right wing to strengthen the line elsewhere. When the preposterous Russians, unequipped, untrained and unafraid, invaded East Prussia, Moltke forgot Schlieffen and diverted two corps from the Belgian drive to the Russian front. The two corps were never needed; General Erich Ludendorff routed the Russians at Tannenberg before his reinforcements arrived...
...considered a prime favorite to succeed Speaker Sam Rayburn, even though he had signed a widely publicized Southern Manifesto of white supremacy, which eventually cost him the favor of Northern Democrats. But his performance as chairman of Ways and Means has not lived up to its promise. A naturally cautious, conciliatory man, Mills let his committee dawdle endlessly over legislation, to the point that it was nicknamed the "No Ways and By No Means Committee." In his efforts to produce bills that would be palatable to everyone, Mills has produced several that were savory to none. He has, moreover, been...
...that his surly postman was an unreconstructed Nazi, only to discover that the man was a lifelong socialist who had spent years interned in a concentration camp. Most of the German-born Jews who fled abroad have refused to return home, and the few who have come back are cautious still. "We work together with the Germans," says the production manager of a clothing firm in West Berlin, "but we can never be friends. They either feel guilty about what they did to us, or they are sorry to see any of us still here...
...controls will follow the construction of the McKay Laboraotry, financed completely by government funds. Federal agencies have imposed restrictions on government-built projects before (witness the District of Columbia Stadium and Secretary Udall's order that teams playing in it must integrate); and the Faculty must demand a more cautious attitude from the University...