Word: circumspectly
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...Italians are very circumspect before reaching any decision, but once we have made up our minds, we march straight toward our objective and never turn back. . . . An unknown infantryman [Mussolini], one of many who fought, suffered, died and won to give Italy a radiant victory in the World War, wrote on the wall of a house near the banks of the Piave River: Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep. This motto, more than any other, is our gospel...
...Paul." When he arrived at the Cardinals' training camp in Bradenton. Fla. last year, Pitcher Dean astounded reporters by promising that he and his Brother Paul would win 45 games. They won 49. This season, Pitcher Dean was a shade more circumspect. Said he: "I hope they let me pitch the ones they really want to win but you see I'm a regular star today. Frankie Frisch won't rely on me as much this summer as he did last year. I can't do the managing and pitching all at once. . . . Frankie thinks...
General Johnson would fight like a demon behind closed doors and then be circumspect and calm as a May morn in the White House lobby. Putting together all its available information, the Press came to this conclusion...
...Understand gentlemen, I am not accusing M. Pressard of any part in the Prince murder or even making such an insinuation. I am merely drawing the logical conclusion between what Judge Prince said and his death." The son and widow of Judge Albert Prince were far less circumspect. Through their lawyers last week they issued a 10,000-word statement, going all over the same ground and concluding: "After his interview with Judge Lescouvé, Judge Prince said to Max Buteau: 'Between Pressard and me, there is hatred to the death.' How is it possible not to place...
...true state of affairs in Jugoslavia, would then set all things right. Adamic, discovering plenty of things that needed setting to rights, says flatly that King Alexander's Government is a grinding dictatorship, that Jugoslavian jails hold thousands of political prisoners, that if he had not been exceedingly circumspect he would have had no chance of getting the notes for his book across the border...