Word: prudently
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...look at the fighting in Europe we may feel encouraged by the valiant and zestful manner in which the Russians have begun their spring offensive. . . . It would be prudent, however, and in accordance with Stalin's own judgment to take a more restrained view...
...struggle to keep the Japs in the south, at the river mouths. In the spring, the south is a grey, heat-beaten land, where only the rivers are cool and even the wide rice paddies gape with cracks in the baking earth. It is a time when prudent men, fools, even Englishmen stay out of the midday sun. But the Japs fought in the sun, and drove the British steadily up the Irrawaddy and Sittang valleys. Then the Chinese came down from the north...
General Marshall and his good friend in Washington, Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, had long since discussed these prospects. All the facts, all the prudent objections to any major continental attempt this year, were known to General Marshall. His hosts in London had little new to tell him. Perhaps he had something to tell them...
Evidently prudent Britain was risking no transit by enemy ships, Red Cross or no Red Cross...
Lower profits were not the reason First National cut its dividend. Earnings this year, in fact, will approximate the $10,241,000 cleared last year. But First National-now weathering its fourth U.S. war-was worried by increasing controls and taxes, figured smaller dividends would be a "prudent move...