Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mummify bodies and stock tombs with worldly belongings. Christians pray for the "resurrection of the body" and have traditionally held that at the Last Judgment the tombs will open and the dead will rise again to life. This age-old belief, combined with new technology, makes it seem prudent to a growing number of Americans that they should arrange to have their bodies frozen upon death just in case they might be resurrected...
...hospital had a rather strong case. For, like all negligence plaintiffs, the Deutsches had the difficult job of proving four elusive claims: 1) that the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty of reasonable care; 2) that the defendant failed to perform that duty in the manner of "a reasonably prudent person" who would have foreseen and avoided the consequences; 3) that the defendant's negligence actually as well as legally caused the plaintiff's injury; 4) that the plaintiff suffered real loss or "damage" to be compensated by the defendant...
Even as they push for a revision of Catholic marriage rules, the theologians concede that any change will be slow in coming. Faced with a possibly revolutionary decision involving the church's stand on birth control, prudent Pope Paul VI is most unlikely to follow it up with an equally radical change in divorce law. More than once, he has expressed alarm at the mounting number of annulment cases clogging the Sacred Rota, the church's final court of appeal on such problems...
...However prudent it may be, Hussein's moderation is no virtue in the eyes of Arab firebrands, notably Syrian-born Nasserite Ahmed Shukairy. As the boss of the Palestine Liberation Organization, dedicated to retaking Israel for the Arabs, Shukairy for three years has been beating the desert for money, arms and men. Egypt and Syria have provided the P.L.O. with training bases, and so far Shukairy has recruited some 8,000 Arabs and allegedly sent some off to China for training...
Hardly Overjoyed. Though maintaining a prudent distance, the Johnson Administration made no secret of its preference for Duncan. And when Oregonians went to the polls, the President sweated out the results at the White House until 3 a.m. He went to bed pleased. In a victory of almost 2-to-l proportions (159,097 to 88,473), Duncan plainly demonstrated that supporting the war can be a political asset...