Word: circumspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dunn was a textbook piece on the ancient art of recruiting. In the modest Dunn home, the phone jangled steadily with long-distance calls placed by nearly every major-college coach in the South, from Alabama's Paul Bryant to Arkansas' Frank Broyles. From Dartmouth came a circumspect and indirect inquiry. Notre Dame forwarded plane tickets to the Southern California game (Perry Lee mailed them right back: "I don't much like cold weather"), and victory-starved Mississippi State sent a plaintive note ("We all hope and pray that you will come with...
...next three years, Quincy devoted himself to his practice, his wife, and his studies. The Puritan Ethic did not permit idle time; Quincy's dairy is replete wtih statements such as, "I resolve, therefore, in future to be more circumspect--to hoard my moments with a more thrifty spirit--to listen less to the suggestions of indolence, and so quicken that spirit of intellectual improvement to which I devote my life." In addition to copious readings in the classics, he spent a great deal of time learning French, studying botany, keeping an extensive diary, and attending to affairs legal...
...part in recommending the cancellation of the security clearance of Physicist Oppenheimer (TIME, April 19, 1954). But in recent months Strauss had come under attack of a sharp and intensely personal sort from New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, ranking Senate Democrat on the powerful and once circumspect Joint Committee on Atomic Energy...
Albert J. Lord, Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages, said that he would discuss such a course at the next departmental meeting. He added, however, that he would be "circumspect" before recommending such a course...
Egypt, so recently a firebrand 'in the Middle East, was also circumspect. Cairo's press, noisy as ever, swore eternal loyalty to Syria, even threatened that Egypt would close the Suez Canal if Syria were attacked. But Nasser himself, absorbed in his efforts to negotiate an economic settlement with France, and to retrieve the $40 million in Egyptian funds now blocked by the U.S., seemed to be scrupulously avoiding his old pastime of fishing in troubled waters...