Word: restraint
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...appreciate your restraint in not blue-penciling Phyllis McGinley's remarks about Bulwer-Lytton...
...equally aghast: "I like my privacy as well as the next one, but I am nevertheless compelled to admit that government has a right to invade it unless prohibited by some specific constitutional provision." Finding no such specific covering privacy, Black, who is often accused of scorning "judicial restraint," proceeded to rake his brethren for imposing their subjective feelings on a legislature. Should the court continue this "shocking doctrine," said Black, it will wind up as "a day-today constitutional convention...
...pacifism of the generation in college now. Then as now, he said, any breach of the peace was an attack on basic values, and war seemed inconceivable. But through the experience of World War II, Gilkey continued, that generation learned that power had to be used, but used with restraint. The current generation he said, is still hesitant to use power...
Paying tribute to Kennedy, Gilkey said that he was one who added meaning to life through death. Kennedy was "a brilliant example" of a man willing to use power, while remaining acutely conscious of the need for restraint, Gilkey stated...
Made painfully aware of OAS shortcomings, President John Kennedy said shortly after the abortive 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion: "Let the record show that our restraint is not inexhaustible. Should it ever appear that the inter-American doctrine of noninterference merely conceals or excuses a policy of nonaction-if the nations of this hemisphere should fail to meet their commitments against outside Communist penetration-then I want it clearly understood that this Government will not hesitate in meeting its primary obligations, which are to the security of our nation. Should that time ever come, we do not intend...