Word: restraint
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...grisly piece of Orwellian doublethink may seem a decade premature, but it has already served 20 years as the basis for U.S. nuclear strategy. Judging from the historical record, it has served rather well. There has been no nuclear war, and with one significant exception, we have shown commendable restraint in brandishing our nuclear sword...
...final speech from the dock, one of the most eloquent addresses ever delivered in the cause of a free Ireland, Casement declared, "Loyalty is a sentiment, not a law. It rests on love, not restraint. The government of Ireland by England rests on restraint and not on law; and since it demands no love, it can evoke no loyalty." Self-government, he added, is "a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers...
...Standard Times, has put together a marvelous book about everything that went into the financing, building and provisioning of whaling ships, the men who sailed and lost them, the "overweening pursuit of wealth" that drove them to riches and ruin. Allen writes poetically but with a naturalist's restraint about the climate, flora and fauna of the forbidding, fickle northwest corner of Alaska. As few writers have, he describes with nose-to-nose empathy its native Eskimos, an incredibly robust and good-natured people inhabiting one of earth's coldest hells...
Returning Russians. Meanwhile, Middle East peace will depend on restraint by both sides. Even if there is no resumption of major fighting, Israel seems in for more violence. Last Tuesday a terrorist's grenade exploded in the Old City section of Jerusalem, injuring 20; the following day a bomb exploded in an Israeli bus wounding 14 and killing one. Both incidents indicate the growing restlessness of the Palestinians living within the Israeli-occupied Arab territories. In the past month at least 60 suspected terrorists have been arrested in Israel for a series of attacks...
Resentment of the President's inconsistencies is now deep in the American soul. Nixon preached law-and-order but presided over a lawless administration. While he was cutting programs of education and health and urging personal spending restraint on everyone else, his private homes were being voluptuously appointed at taxpayers' expense. His calls for all Americans to carry the national commitments were still ringing when it was learned Nixon had used gimmicks to reduce his taxes to a pittance. And even as he belatedly began to recognize the seriousness of the energy crisis, he roared round the country...