Word: circumspection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bunte was equally circumspect. In an introduction to Rolf's story, it recommended skepticism by readers "because this is an account of a man who for more than three decades knew how to escape or deceive his pursuers." The magazine promised four more installments describing how Mengele, immediately after the war, had worked for four years as a groom for a farmer near Munich; how he had been mistakenly arrested by Italian authorities in 1949 in Genoa, then released three weeks later with friendly apologies; and how he was assisted in South America by Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Luftwaffe...
When executives discuss a corporate merger, they become as circumspect as Swiss bankers. So it went with the merger between Allied and Signal, announced last week. Edward Hennessy Jr., Allied's chairman, along with Forrest Shumway and Michael Dingman, Signal's chairman and president, met March 5 at Marriott's Camelback Inn, a plush Scottsdale, Ariz., resort with two 18-hole golf courses, two swimming pools and ten tennis courts. Hennessy and Dingman registered under the last name of Dingman's secretary. Although the executives are fond of sports, they seldom left their rooms. When discussing the firms, they called...
...York dress manufacturer who wildcatted an oil fortune in the Rocky Mountains. The two offer a startling physical contrast: Davis is a 6-ft. 4-in. bear weighing 300 lbs. and fond of enveloping friends in an enormous embrace; Murdoch is trim, 5 in. shorter and circumspect, though cordial, in manner. Both share an aversion to the spotlight, a passion for long working hours and, more to the point, a consuming interest in making their millions beget more millions...
...himself at court as personal secretary to Henry, as much through nattering verse and charm at the dinner table as by administrative competence. As he moved up in office-royal councillor, Undertreasurer of the Exchequer, speaker for the House of Commons and finally Lord Chancellor-he seemed docile and circumspect...
...taskmaster at work, Barrows also knew how to play. She threw lavish formal Christmas parties for her employees and clients, taking homey snapshots of some of the less circumspect guests. To celebrate New Year's Eve, she allowed her employees to keep half of the take; women who worked through the entire night kept 60%. For all her high living, Barrows believed in noblesse oblige: she volunteered to buy groceries for an elderly neighbor and donated money to the city's Meals-on-Wheels program...