Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quakers completely outplayed us in the beginning because we were just admiring their play." Kydes explained. "They didn't wait for the play; they rushed forward without waiting for the ball to come to them. That aggressive style of play made us overly cautious and did not let us play our type of game...
...Rogers, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Attorney General John Mitchell. In the past, Laird and Rogers have privately advocated more urgent action to speed up troop withdrawals. Some White House observers assumed that Mitchell was there to help Kissinger argue for a more cautious troop policy that would enable the Administration to maintain negotiating pressure on Hanoi...
...minutes ago."). Another story has it that his Rambler, a dilapidated antique, is driven only to Logan Airport and back. And he works twenty-four hours a day. These Dunlop stories capture the energy, but miss the man's complexity: the intellectual and toughguy negotiator, the compromiser and cautious advocate...
Dunlop's administrative record suggests he would be an activist Dean, not a passive consensus-builder. But his record as a mediator suggests his activism may be cautious and stealthy. In particular, the Dean of the Faculty has to avoid intiatives that would impair the confidence the Faculty has in him. Dunlop no doubt realizes this. He realizes, too, his responsibility to a larger public...
...that he will have to deal again with unrest over Harvard's relationship to government policy. So far May has acted quietly to bridge feelings between the Faculty and administration and to aid curriculum reform. He says that this function is mediation, not advocacy. He is a diplomatic historian, cautious in his sentences, cradling a thin-stemmed pipe several seconds before answering any question. Small tie-knot, two-button grey suit and flat-top haircut: unobtrusive except that he seems to neigh when he smiles...