Word: circumspection
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Elaborately Circumspect. Although Wilson was seldom seen in Detroit society, it is now his duty to spend four or five evenings a week at official functions. Possessed of an immense amount of secret information, he is elaborately circumspect about his party talk. If he is asked an embarrassing question, he launches into what his family calls "the goony-bird routine"-a lengthy discussion of the goony birds he saw on Midway Island during his trip to Korea with...
...hiding place"-a 700-acre stud farm outside the tiny village of Kilcullen. Newsmen, dutifully noting the first morning that a maid was pulling the curtains in Gene's room while an electric razor buzzed four windows away, kept close watch but could report nothing more than a circumspect round of sightseeing through the countryside, hand-holding beside a lake, a visit to Dublin's Royal Theater and the prince's victory (his 102nd win as a jockey) in the last race at the Kilbeggan Meeting. While the cheering track crowd shouted, "Good old Alec McCann...
...United States cannot afford to make another mistake in Chinese affairs. Its position in Asia is too weak to stand many more severe blows. In discussing the Formosa issue in the U.N., therefore, the U. S. should take care to be extremely circumspect. This is one time in modern world politics when making a big noise will...
Where the Riviera is loud and brash, its less renowned rival Biarritz is reserved and circumspect. Drowsing in the winter sun, discreet Biarritz has its full share of ménages à trois, lurid and perverted personalities, titled lovers and mistresses of high & low degree. But scandal, however it flourishes behind the hedges that screen the big villas, is never to be flaunted in the swank drinking places. Thus it has been ever since the days of Britain's Edward VII, who set the tone for Biarritz and usually remembered to draw the blinds...
...planted ranch in Tishomingo in the Chickasaw country. Bill never thought much about money, and never got his money back. The suggestion was made in Oklahoma's first legislature that the state reimburse him, but Bill, scowling over his handlebar mustaches, didn't think that would be "circumspect": he was the legislature's speaker. "Let's leave it to some succeeding administration," said Alfalfa Bill...