Word: circumspectness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...commission was circumspect in assigning blame to high places. But it did point out that Congress has the responsibility for funding the EEOC adequately. Commission studies did not discern "any substantial period in the past when enforcement was at a uniformly high level of effectiveness." The Nixon Administration, despite promises to make existing laws work rather than seek new civil rights statutes, has not improved upon the record...
Bettman, calling his Ode a "monument to obscurity," said that he agreed with what Elliott had written, but added that his poem was probably a little more circumspect about...
There is a character in Conrad's Nostromo, Martin Decoud, a Europeanized South American, who, amidst a revolution, mistakes his sympathetic, ironic detachment for circumspect veracity...