Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey to continue to campaign in this vein is hardly admirable but at least logical. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain if he can awaken old phobias about Nixon. Whether it is prudent politics for Nixon suddenly to begin emulating his rival's bare-knuckled tactics is another question. The kind of speeches he made last week could serve to revive images of him as a reckless partisan. This can only spur Democrats to fight harder in the campaign's closing days...
...many of its friends around the world. The Russians doubtlessly also calculated that the storm of protest by other Communist parties would soon subside, just as it did after Hungary in 1956. After all, the tradition of loyalty to the "Motherland of the Revolution" is long, emotional and prudent. As the world's second greatest power, Russia can provide better than anyone else the money, arms and technical aid that struggling Communists in other countries need...
...touch with what he calls "Middle America," the mass of citizens who believed that Daley was right in ordering the demonstrators beaten. He concludes by questioning the privileges that the press has always assumed: ... those of us in the media would be wise to exercise a certain caution, a prudent restraint in pressing for a plenary indulgence to be in all places at all times as the agents of the sovereign public...
...problem is that he seems willing to let the Russians catch up with, or possibly overtake, the United States. Such a position tends to worry most voters. And Nixon's concern about arms-control talks--that they should be negotiated "from strength and never from weakness"--seems more prudent than Humphrey's enthusiastic endorsement of arms negotiations...
...Coop's complex and delicate financial status. By not opposing the nomination of any of the stockholders' proposed officers, except for one vice president, the opposition slate seems to recognize the need for having experienced professionals on the board to add continuity to management and to recommend the most prudent business policies for the Coop. By controlling a majority of the board, however, the group hopes to use its strength to formulate new policies affecting employees, investment, and the community of Cambridge. While this plan for division of the responsibilities and concerns within the board may seem a viable compromise...