Word: prudently
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Characteristic Prudence. Well aware that their cosmonaut would be exposing his vulnerable body to several kinds of sudden death, the Russian space officials were characteristically prudent. Only when he was safely back aboard the Voskhod II did they announce the flight and release TV pictures of his lofty acrobatics so that the world could get a guarded glimpse of the wildest space fantasy made real...
...says that arrest is "taking a person into custody that he may be held to answer for a crime." The Fourth Amendment, which bans "unreasonable searches and seizures," sets an arrest standard of "probable cause," meaning sufficient evidence to convince a prudent man that an offense has been or is being committed. In short, arrest for mere suspicion is unconstitutional-though it is so widely practiced in crime-ridden slum areas that about 100,000 such arrests a year are openly listed in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports...
Eisenman said last night that he had been put under HCUA interdict preventing him from further campaigning and that he therefore thought it most prudent to decline comment. He was on his way to Lamont and was still wearing his carnation...
...health of our people is, inescapably, the foundation for fulfillment of all our aspirations," declared President Johnson in his special message to the Congress outlining a broad health-care program that he termed "practical, prudent and patient." Its goal, he said, was to lay a firm foundation for "the healthiest, happiest and most hopeful society in the history...
...packing, nuclear-fueled submarine, the Daniel Boone, first of seven slated to cruise off crucial Asiatic shores. Peking Radio denounced Boone's stalking as "nuclear blackmail" and "naked war provocation." Whatever the sub's duty was called, its presence would doubtless make Peking's masters more prudent in rattling their own crude atomic device...