Word: restraint
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...final form, the Commission's report was amazing in its detail, remarkable in its judicious caution and restraint, yet utterly convincing in its major conclusions. The wonder was not that the Commission took such a long time to complete its report but that it did so much so swiftly...
Lyndon Johnson also realizes the importance of the nuclear issue-and he has exploited it with consummate skill. In his speeches, he constantly uses the words "responsibility" and "restraint." He does not need to mention Goldwater's name: everybody knows who and what he is talking about...
...weary officers on riot duty; area residents sent telegrams of support to the mayor and an offer to help in cleaning up; a clearinghouse was set up in an area church for people to return taken items. The Negro press condemned the outrage and congratulated the police for their restraint and wisdom...
Wisely, Tshombe avoided his usual histrionics, answered the stream of criticism with patient restraint. He was, as one delegate put it, "a cat in hell without claws." So successfully did he make his case that even such violent critics as Ghana ended up supporting him, and the foreign minister of his bitter enemy, the neighboring Brazzaville Congo, was moved to offer Tshombe his hand and praise his "African sense...
...with income tax evaders and car thieves, and lock-stepped to meals that were eaten from a tin plate under a guard's glare. Bennett's monument is "individualized" treatment that separates prisoners by degrees of dangerousness and redeemability. The vast majority are given only as much restraint as they require. Today, more than 40% of federal prisoners are in prisons virtually without walls-working outside at everything from roadbuilding to reforestation...