Word: circumspectly
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Soweto's white police commander, Brigadier Jan Visser, has promised that when the schools reopen this week, his men will be "circumspect, not interfere with the educational process and confine [themselves] to controlling criminal elements." But the authorities are committed to keeping schools open for any students who want to defy the boycott. If SSRC tries intimidation to keep children away, Pretoria is likely to counter with its tough, heavily armed and mostly white riot police. It was the presence of riot police in Soweto last June that enraged student protesters and ultimately led to the shootings. If police turn...
...Caddell acknowledged, Democrats will have to garner more moderate, middle-class votes in the industrial North in order to win in the future. In recognition of this trend, Carter offered favors gingerly and sparingly to the groups supporting him during the campaign. He may have to be similarly circumspect as President...
...trace an edge here and there, catch a glint on the horizon, and toss in a grain of folk wisdom--say, about history repeating itself--divination is an awfully tempting pasttime. Politicians like to do it; journalists, too; scholars, as befits their trade, tend to be more circumspect...
NONETHELESS, Speer insists on portraying himself in similar terms in Spandau. It seems Speer did not write these diaries to unburden himself or explore personal questions, but intended to publish them all along; as a result, he is circumspect about what he includes and no doubt even more careful about what he leaves out. He made most of his entries on scraps of toilet paper and smuggled them out through friendly guards. The best diaries are those that were never intended for publication: only those can provide access to the writers' most closely guarded secrets, their most revealing qualities. Spandau...
...help of TIME Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey, Mo has fashioned something more than a palpitating apologia. She was, after all, an accidental witness to some high crimes and misdemeanors, and her views of the pressure-cooked conformity of the Nixon White House are mordant and telling. After a circumspect New Year's Eve party with two other uptight Administration couples, Mo notes: "As far as I could tell, no one had taken offense at anything anyone else had done or said, so the evening had to be chalked up as a roaring success...