Word: prudently
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From Peking south to Canton, belligerent Red China shouted new watchwords: "Beware of burrowing! Beware of air raids!" Burrowing meant the anti-Communist underground. Retaliatory U.N. air raids seemed a grim possibility in the Red mind; like prudent, undaunted soldiers, the aggressors in Peking were preparing for the worst...
...Catholic concept, because this is a democratic age and democracy stresses the rights of individuals . . . You'll see that when the Dutch Catholics become a majority,* Holland will be a tolerant country-not because Dutch Catholics are indifferent to truth, not because they'll deem it prudent to be tolerant, nor again out of charity, but because they are aware of the individual rights of non-Catholics to tolerance...
...would be Aug. 14, the vigil of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and that the service would contain the words from the Martyrology of Usuard†: "As yet the Church has given no decision upon the bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, exercising a prudent reserve as to trivial, or apocryphal legends." St. Anthony, who steadfastly believed that Mary's body had indeed been taken into Heaven after her death, hated to hear these words...
...likable sort and he had a kind of brash courage. He had challenged Taft when better-known and more prudent men had declined to take the chance. And in some respects, he was not altogether to be sneezed at. He had held the auditor's office for 14 years; in 1948, when Harry Truman was winning Ohio by a scant 7,107 votes, Joe Ferguson won re-election by 291,887-the biggest majority a Democrat ever got in the state...
...Hopes. In issuing the new regulations, Gómez Morales and The Boys hoped to increase Argentine exports by cheapening them in terms of foreign exchange. They also hoped to lure back to Argentina, in the form of imports, some of the estimated $200 to $300 million which prudent Argentines have salted away abroad. In this way a stockpile would be built up in case of a new world war, which the Muchachos complacently expect. To attract more foreign capital investment into the country, restrictions were eased on the transfer of foreign companies' profits abroad, blocked for the past...