Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West remained cagey and noncommittal. It seemed content to sit back and let Russia make the first move. Whatever the Russians tried to do, Allied airmen last week proved that they could go on supplying Berlin until Joseph Stalin laid his cards face-up on the table (see below...
...matter of hard fact, both Osorio and Gálvez probably preferred hard-boiled Somoza to "Spiritual Socialist" Arévalo. But both were enjoying governmental honeymoons ("Glory to God in Heaven and Gálvez in Honduras!" burbled a Tegucigalpa poster), and both were playing it cagey. They proclaimed their respective countries friendly to Guatemala "as to all nations," pleaded ignorance of any plans to meet Arévalo, and let it go at that...
...hedge against his blue-sky antics, his cagey wife runs a boardinghouse. Thus, Chicken Every Sunday is crowded with a rich, hot-biscuits-&-gravy atmosphere and some folksy characters. When Dailey's last fling (the coppermine gamble) almost gets the whole crew thrown into the street, the moral emerges: How can a man be a failure if he makes a lot of friends, wins the love of his wife and children and even the respect of his boarders...
...cold, muddy waters of Shanghai's Soochow Creek teemed with thousands of Chinese junks and smaller sampans. Terrified refugees were preparing once more to flee before the surging tide of Communism. Nevertheless, the great majority of Chinese were becoming more reconciled to the prospects of Communist rule. The cagey Reds had switched to a "soft" line...
...quick to reply. Said he: "I hope that Abdullah's words will be promptly translated into action." By last week, Abdullah's work of translation was making progress. Meeting in Jericho, 500 Palestine Arab leaders had proclaimed him "King of all Palestine," and demanded union with Transjordan. Cagey Abdullah took a modest line. He would consult with his government and other members of the Arab League. Last week his cabinet gave its consent, and this week Parliament voiced its unanimous approval. The rest of the Arab world howled treachery. Next to a strong Israel, a bigger and stronger...