Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maid, saws a huge chandelier from its chain during the performance of an opera in which Christine's rival is singing. The hard-pressed Surete (French FBI) ultimately has to call on Composer Franz Liszt (German Shakespearian Actor Fritz Leiber) to aid them in bagging the cagey Phantom...
...report had General Giraud stopping in Martinique before his arrival in America. The pro-Vichy master of the French Caribbean island, cagey, white-goateed Admiral Georges Robert, had asked the U.S. "to fix the terms" for a change in the island's authority. To Martinique for negotiations hurried U.S. Vice Admiral John H. Hoover, commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier. After three years of jealous, stubborn defiance, cantankerous Robert seemed ready to turn over his tiny domain, with its gold, its barnacled ships and its rebellious, starving inhabitants, to the rule of the Committee of Liberation in North Africa...
...this subject the conference, by force of political circumstance, had to play cagey. For instance, some delegates wanted the final report to say flatly that no nation should ever again kill pigs in order to raise the price of pork. This idea was turned down in deference to the Administration, an old pigsticker itself. Boldest statement came from the British, who repudiated export or production quotas, and advocated price policies "which balance supply & demand, and allow a steady rate of expansion to the most efficient producers." When in Rome. Fact was that the conference was hamstrung...
...Cagey as a boxer readying a blow or parrying a punch, Japan shifted its weight in the South Pacific. On the eastern side of New Guinea, the Japs had been pushed back. Now fresh troops and supplies were being pushed forward into bases farther west - Timor, Amboina, the Aru Islands and New Guinea's western shore...
Chaplains in general feel that the Hour is raising the religious interest of the troops. They cite the fact that many men ask for baptism, confirmation, some talk about entering the ministry after the war. But by & large the men's attitude tends toward the cagey. Many of them preface their questions apologetically: "Without disrespect to the Church. . . ." Says the Ministry of Information, with bland British understatement: "There is extremely little real hostility to the Church. The commonest attitude might be accurately described as disappointment or impatience...