Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle East. The Russian and British armies in Persia, Iraq and Syria hold guns at Turkey's back-friendly guns, aimed not at the Turks but at the Germans. Turkey's bouncing Premier Sükr ü Saracoglu and the Turkish army's tough, cagey old Field Marshal Fevsi Cakmak have no choice but to play with the winning side...
Dunlop continued against Burton his steady, unsensational, but very cagey tactics, which had already accounted for John Zinsser, Hugh Hyde, and Vincent Brandt, winning...
Thirty years ago the phrase "Gentleman Jim has won again" meant a pugilist named Corbett. Today it refers to a cagey politician whose last name is Farley. For, in the New York Democratic Convention yesterday, Jim's man won the nomination for Governor hands down. The victory of Attorney General John J. Bennett over Senator James A. Mead sets off a chain of consequences that may tie the political structure of the country into its worst tangle in several decades. Most important of all, it forces a wartime President into the dangerous game of playing politics within his own party...
...practical belief that Jim Mead was the only Democrat who could get American Labor Party support, needed to beat Tom Dewey. Jim Mead, with four secure years in the Senate ahead of him, and with at least 50 friends among the 51 bosses committed to Bennett, was cagey. He craftily named his own candidate: Jim Farley...
Rubens lived in an age when it was possible for an extravert to be a great painter, and for a great painter to be a great success. He took every advantage of it. He was a cagey businessman, among businessmen who knew and valued good painting when they saw it. He was an apt amateur diplomat in a day when diplomacy was not quite a profession. He was a prodigious worker (average: four to five days per painting, all his life), and he ordered his life to that end. He never drank nor gambled, seldom lunged at his models...