Word: restraint
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...inaugural theme of civility and lowered voices. "The time has come," he said, "for us to recognize that violence and terror have no place in a free society." His speech was an appeal to "the rules of the game," a lucid and occasionally eloquent invocation of decency, self-restraint and mutual tolerance...
When Martha Mitchell's runaway tongue provoked demands that Husband John silence her (TIME, Dec. 5), the Attorney General responded with the bemused suggestion that she speak henceforth in Swahili. Last week, his glacial restraint thawed by two Scotch-and-waters and the gentle prodding of Kandy Stroud, an attractive blonde reporter for Women's Wear Daily, John Mitchell topped even Martha at her loquacious best...
...committed to the use of force and the threat of force as a major instrument of foreign policy. This will require the United States to engage repeatedly in a test of will and nerve with the Chinese Communists in which an important component will be the need to communicate restraint combined with an indication of what the United States is prepared to do in the event of Chinese expansion of a local conflict in a way that seems detrimental to American interest...
...problem would go away. Unwilling to find fault, reluctant to look into unpleasant facts and call them by their right names, eager to avoid controversy, trying above all to be understanding, perhaps a majority of us have been less insistent than we might-while continuing patiently to practice restraint-to observe the scholar's inescapable obligation for critical analysis and hard appraisal, or the citizen's duty to work strenuously to improve, but not to destroy, the hard-won structures of our public life. Not unlike those who twenty years ago imagined and deeply hoped there was something...
...surge of inflation is rapidly eroding the balance of payments gains brought about by two years of severe economic restraint. It has again called into question Britain's capacity to compete in an enlarged Common Market and poses a renewed-though not immediate-threat of another devaluation of the pound. To avert that blow, many economic analysts contend, Britain's new conservative government will have to adopt strong anti-inflation measures soon...