Word: prudently
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...This is evil fiction. It never has worked. It is not working now, and I can prove it. A prudent government would balance its budget by stopping nonessential expenditures. This is not being done...
...Ottawa's House of Com mons knew roughly what to expect when the Prime Minister rose for his announcement. Elected in 1958 with the largest parliamentary majority in Canadian his tory, Diefenbaker still had eleven months to go in his five-year term, though it is never prudent to go to the country at the last moment. He would really have preferred to delay the election until September, he said, but the Liberals' "delaying tactics and obstruction" had made it "al most impossible to proceed with the busi ness of the House." Thus, Diefenbaker explained blandly, "the only...
...best method of improving restaurant cleanliness, says the Public Health Service, is the complaint-loud, and preferably in front of other customers. And until complaints begin to get results, prudent barflies can presumably benefit from Connecticut's experience by sipping whisky from a spoon...
...year-old whose big brother appointed him Attorney General, not Secretary of State. The next time one of the traveling Kennedys goes on a diplomatic lark, the Administration ought to have Dean Rusk carry his (or her) suitcases in order to dramatize the complete breakdown in orderly and prudent division of responsibility. Top-level foreign relations in this hydrogen-charged world are far too delicate to trust to kid brothers tired of Washington...
...stutterers: but what they stuttered and twaddled was Latin, not double-Dutch; and great part of it is now double-Dutch and Latin no more ... Here then, between poets capable of much and copyists capable of anything, is a promising field for the exercise of tact and caution; a prudent editor will be slow to emend the text and slow to defend it, and his page will bristle with the obelus. But alas, it is not for specimens of tact and caution that one resorts to the editors of the Culex; it is rather to fill one's bosom with...