Word: circumspection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Convention. As President, he set all sorts of standards to which Americans have ever since repaired. When Bushrod Washington, 27, wrote calmly asking appointment as U.S. district attorney for Virginia, his uncle wrote sternly: "My political conduct in nominations, even if I was uninfluenced by principle, must be exceedingly circumspect and proof against just criticism, for the eyes of Argus are upon...
...McCarthy comparison seemed not only deplorable, it was shallow ... A democracy is supposed to have room for citizens "arrogant" as hell, not overly circumspect about dinner companions, not averse to playing hide-and-seek with policemen. The military in a democracy does not, of course, put up with such peccadillos in its officers ... To which club do the scientists belong? There's the rub. If our brightest minds now are all "in the Army"-without benefit of uniforms-the police state already has conquered...
Nazi regulations for more than a handful of people to gather in any one place, but the 100 or more who dropped in to watch Audrey were circumspect, and the Nazis never found...
Elaborately Circumspect. Although Wilson was seldom seen in Detroit society, it is now his duty to spend four or five evenings a week at official functions. Possessed of an immense amount of secret information, he is elaborately circumspect about his party talk. If he is asked an embarrassing question, he launches into what his family calls "the goony-bird routine"-a lengthy discussion of the goony birds he saw on Midway Island during his trip to Korea with...
...hiding place"-a 700-acre stud farm outside the tiny village of Kilcullen. Newsmen, dutifully noting the first morning that a maid was pulling the curtains in Gene's room while an electric razor buzzed four windows away, kept close watch but could report nothing more than a circumspect round of sightseeing through the countryside, hand-holding beside a lake, a visit to Dublin's Royal Theater and the prince's victory (his 102nd win as a jockey) in the last race at the Kilbeggan Meeting. While the cheering track crowd shouted, "Good old Alec McCann...