Word: restraint
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...Vietnamese friends over there were afraid, that we'll resort to even the greater fire power that we have. We'll lay rubble to everything, including perhaps using nuclear weapons. It's in this context that people get very worried. They have no confidence at all in restraint on the part of the United States...
...been at Harvard for many years. He must offer something. He does. There is no greater gentleman in the Harvard Department of Athletics than Floyd Wilson. He is sincere and straight-forward. His ball-players respect him even in defeat. Few men--let alone coaches--would have the restraint to talk to someone who had in effect publicly called for their resignation. Yet when I asked him to do me a favor this afternoon, he answered affirmatively, unhesitatingly...
...terms of Russian song the question of restraint is probably irrelevant. There is nothing diminutive about this music. Everything is done in broad strokes and grand gestures. The syllables are rich and mouth-filling, the chords are full, and the passions are great, and as long as somewhere in the world these exist, there is still reason to hope...
...nuclear might, a big power must be doubly cautious with its conventional weapons. For no one can be certain of the level of warfare that might earn a smaller belligerent some nuclear assistance from outside. And these days, even conventional arms are so devastating that they demand restraint...
Until the last few days we have exercised some restraint about civilian deaths, With morality-rates after single raids in the hundreds rather than the hundreds of thousands. But recent events suggest that we have reached the kind of turning-point that occurred sometime in 1942, when a secret policy-decision was made to abandon traditional restraints against large urban populations. As ordinary citizens, we may never know when or how such a turning point is reached, as the British Air Command continued to deny any policy-change even after the destruction of Dresden...