Word: cager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have another op'nin' of another show, and if it isn't "The Taming of the Shrew," and if it isn't in Baltimore, of all places, what difference does that make, so long as the lectures are at eleven o'clock, the reading is light, the girl is cager, the weather is nice, and the examinations aren't until June...
Congress will be cager to do something about reducing labor-management friction, and the economic philisophy of the Grand Old Party makes it likely that whatever action is taken will consist of squashing labor's freedom of decision by Congressional fiat. The chance that such action will be blocked by Executive veto is lessened by President Truman's propensity for wielding a bludgeon in labor disputes. He and his advisers lack the time and tact to handle the labor question diplomatically and will be only too happy to be handed an even bigger club...
...there be left in the College any hardy soula cager for journalistic enterprise and fruition-persons who have the urge to learn about reporting or writing or selling or taking pictures or even drawing cartoons--if they failed to join the CRIMSON'S fall competition last night, they will have another chance later in the week...
Also for men cager to earn their A.B. in as little time as possible is the committee which evaluates careers in the service in terms of course credits up to as high as four full courses, or even more in the case of those who have taken ASTP programs at other colleges...
Governor John "Doubleyou" Bricker, the Sage of the Midwest, has come out with a statement that is a masterpiece of political sophistry. "America is not, has never been and will never be an isolationist nation." Bricker, whose bid for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination has the cager support of that old internationalist, Senator Robert A. Taft, thus neatly evaded committing himself on the question of isolationism by refusing to recognize its existence. An observer unblinded by the necessities of political conciliation might perceive that isolationism was, is now, and will be a matter of burning moment for a great sector...