Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much as the Dies Committee spends every seven weeks) and a group of colleagues chosen mostly from junior Senators, such as Minnesota's young Joseph Ball, Washington's first-terming Mon C. Wallgren, New York's busy James M. Mead. Also on the committee went cagey old Tom Connally of Texas, to see that the juniors kept their heads. For its first assignment, the Committee chose a modest chore: delving into the more flagrant charges of graft in camp and war-plant construction, plugging some of the more open sewers down which Government money drained...
...thought of Hitler's taking over Spain lies heavily on Allied minds. Colonel Beigbeder was known as anti-Nazi and pro-Allied, and his experience as Moroccan administrator made his advice valuable. But Franco is cagey, and he has carefully watched the events in French North Africa since the Allied landing. In Washington a story circulated that Colonel Beigbeder had come to lay the foundations of a "Free Spain" in case the Nazis invaded his home country. If he succeeded, and the Nazis did take over Spain, the parallel with French North Africa would be complete...
...election. With President Ryti still in office, sternly anti-Communist Mannerheim' was left free to handle Finland's darkening military prospects. Many reports had Finland feeling for peace. But Finland's primary aim probably is not peace in itself, but security when peace does come. Cagey, conservative President Ryti is the logical choice to negotiate for Finnish security...
Bullet Lou Kirn (he got his nickname and his cagey heart at Annapolis, playing football) was all Navy: a bear for work, a hater but an understander of red tape, not a liberty hound, never so tired he could not jack his tired men. Bob Milner, the squadron's Executive Officer, was the opposite of relaxed Lou Kirn. In the cockpit he jumped around like a monkey, twisting knobs, pushing levers, pulling his hood open and slamming it shut again, punching out Morse-code messages to his wingmen with his fist. But he was a smooth flyer...
...Rough-&-tumble, 20-year-old Willie Pep (real name Papaleo) of Hartford, Conn.: the world's featherweight boxing championship; dethroning cagey, aging Chalky Wright of Los Angeles after a 15-rounder that drew a crowd of 19,000 (and a $71,000 gate); at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Pep, who has won 54 fights in a row, is the third featherweight champion to come from Hartford. His predecessors: "Kid" Kaplan and "Bat" Battalino...