Word: prudently
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...global gendarme," he said. "The U.S. has no mandate from on high to police the world and no inclination to do so. There have been classic cases in which our deliberate nonaction was the wisest policy of all. Where our help is not sought, it is seldom prudent to volunteer. Military force can help provide law and order-but only to the degree that a basis for law and order already exists in a developing society...
...Administration's war policies in the same walnift-paneled hearing room of the Senate Office Building. Last week he declared in an opening statement that "a central issue in the dispute between the two leading Communist powers today is to what extent it is effective-and prudent-to use force to promote the spread of Communism. If the bellicose doctrines of the Asian Communists should reap a substantial reward, the outlook for peace in this world would be grim indeed...
Self-effacing to the extreme, the Secretary of State has nonetheless proved a consistently prudent yet firm profession al, has worked harder, traveled farther (540,945 miles by last week) and, before Congress at least, defended...
...jolly, open-handed Santa changed all that. Then came Dickens and A Christmas Carol in 1843. Within 20 years-thanks in part to countless readings by Dickens himself-Bob Cratchit and his lame son, Tiny Tim, had become the heroes of the holiday, and many an otherwise prudent man plunged into debt to avoid any likeness to Scrooge...
...four-year council's end on Dec. 8. By sizable majorities they approved, in principle, the 30,000 word schema on The Church in the Modern World, though there was some vociferous minority naysaying-notably from some conservatives who deplored the schema's encouragement of a "prudent" dialogue with atheists and from some Americans such as Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, who took exception to the schema's stern condemnation of atomic weapons and its scant suggestion of their peacekeeping capabilities...