Word: restraint
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When Detroit's police finally were ordered to quell the rioters and to use their weapons when necessary, their initial restraint gave way to near abandon. As in Newark, where overexcited police and state troopers engaged in a brief shoot-out with one another by mistake, fire discipline was lethally...
...Capitol Hill. Critics included Democrats and Republicans, Vietnam hawks and doves, and mostly Southerners and Midwesterners. It is understandable that Senator Fulbright (D-Ark.), a leading Vietnam critic, should say that the Congo commitment reflected a U.S. intention to meet aggression everywhere. He asked the Administration to show "some restraint in this kind of intervention" lest the U.S. invite Russia and Communist China to step up their in volvement in Africa...
...Elite" dancing, observed in country clubs and "two swank hotels," is marked by restraint and "the carefully planned masking of sexual demonstrations." "Swirling and side-stepping about the floor, the upper-class couples present a handsome contrast to lower-class couples who barely move during slower dances...
Through most of last year, with Negro voting strength nearly double what it had been in the previous election, white officials exercised remarkable restraint in dealing with Negroes. Even Gov. Wallace, running his wife as a stand-in gubernatorial candidate, learned to say "knee-grow" for the first time in his political history...
...Soviet record offers both hope and warning. So long as such restraint prevails, a real confrontation of superpowers may be avoided. But if the Russians begin to feel cornered-to regard themselves as being pushed around too much by superior American power-the trend to moderation may be reversed, with increasing peril to world safety. Similar American restraint in areas of current or potential conflict can help avert a tragic showdown...