Word: prudently
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...many observers, this seemed a vote of no confidence. In the interest of wartime unity, it might have been prudent for Franklin Roosevelt to fire his old friend. But the President does not work that way. And Henry Morgenthau, whose greatest attributes are loyalty and the personal courage of an unflinchingly honest man, would never resign without word from the White House...
...obtain joint action from stubborn Ramón S. Castillo's Argentine Government. In the Argentine capital observers noted signs that Castillo was planning a hasty trip to Santiago. That might also mean a last Argentine effort to keep Chile on the path of Argentina's "prudent neutrality." The issue was plain. At the Senate's session this week, Chile would have to choose...
Argentina's ship of state, sailing its wayward course of "prudent neutrality" with President Ramón Castillo at the helm, ran smack into an unexpected obstacle last week. The shock came from a direction whence it was least expected-Britain. It left crew and helmsman surprised and angry. When he had weathered it, Captain Castillo was a grimmer and a wiser...
...beginning, Hollis was the meagre roof over the sombre heads of young men studying for the Puritan ministry. The gift of a prudent merchant to a struggling college, the bare wooden rooms and cell-like studies were the omnipresent manifestations of the privations of the early faith. Names such as Mather, Gore, Winthrop are common to the plates that hung on the harsh doors. Zealous advocates of stern religion left these rooms to lead the spiritual life of the northern colonies...
...Hull calls the Japanese war party "Dillinger" for short. He has the "prevision of a frontiersman" and his "prudent judgments" are the obverse, in State Department coin, of the President's driving self -confidence. Mr. Roosevelt kicked over the traces with his undiplomatic dagger-in-the-back reference to Mussolini. But "18th-Century" Sumner Welles, who was vexed about the dagger, is "erroneously regarded by left-wing intellectuals in this country as a 'reactionary' force in foreign policy." Davis & Lindley prove their point by revealing that while U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were at their worst...