Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accurately gauging the nation's mood, Johnson offered no drastic departures in philosophy, no major policy shifts, in his fifth State of the Union speech. Confronted by a Congress that is more in the mood for retrenchment than revolution, he concluded that the most prudent possible strategy would be to avoid asking for any expensive new programs but to maintain the thrust of the old ones. "We've got to keep the momentum," he told aides beforehand...
...foreign affairs. He said he hoped to send the Senate, before the year is out, a treaty to halt nuclear proliferation; proposed an international program to tap the ocean depths; urged "a major expansion" of both the International Development Association and the Asian Development Bank; called for "a prudent aid program rooted in the principle of self-help"; and offered birth control advice to developing lands...
...hopes of avoiding an embarrassing scandal. Later, his conviction that Arnheiter's relief would sap the authority of every commanding officer overrode his concern for protocol; he openly demanded reconsideration of the Arnheiter case by Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius. "To have withdrawn my support from Arnheiter was prudent," he wrote to the Secretary, "but to turn against him was pusillanimous...
...letter, the publishers asked that reviews of Joyce's notes do not quote more than 200 words of text. (The usual request: not more than 500 words without special permission.) As Joyce's manuscript runs to only 3,000 words, the request seems not only reasonable but prudent. Sample: "The heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?" This is followed by a blank quarter-page, then: "Long lewdly leering lips; dark-blooded molluscs." (Joyce appears, quite properly, to have clammed up at this bluepoint...
...report a "pure invention." The only truth in it, said the statement, was that "conversations"-not peace talks-will take place if the bombings stop. Apparently, Hanoi's man in Paris had been carried away by his own rhetoric and had told Redmont more than his government thought prudent...