Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every nightclub and skating rink, had lost some of its popular appeal and much of its professional standing. The British Council, which would be called on to make up any losses, had bid them godspeed with the air of men watching $50,0000 or more go up in smoke. Cagey Ballet Importer Sol Hurok had cautiously limited the Sadler's Wells tour to four weeks in Manhattan and five on the road, and had set Manhattan ticket prices, except for opening night, at a fainthearted $4.20 top. As it turned out, tickets became almost as hard to come...
Southpaw, 15-game winners Eddie Lopat (lost 10) and Tommy Byrne (lost 7) will probably pitch the third and fourth games. Lopat is cagey, Byrne fast, but both are erratic. Lopat was invaluable in the last weeks; Byrne's greatest contribution to the Yankees was in the first ten weeks of the season...
...mountain road in black limousines rode Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and five members of his day-old Cabinet. A guard of honor of ten U.S., ten British, ten French soldiers snapped to attention for the Germans. Waiting in a drawing room were the high commissioners: the U.S.'s cagey, hard-driving John J. McCloy, France's scholarly, elegant André Francois-Poncet, Britain's shy, gruff General Sir Brian Robertson. Facing the commissioners across a red carpet, Adenauer announced formally that he had formed his government. In a brief speech he paid tribute to the Allies' help...
...Rockport had the same jockey who rode him to victory in the Santa Anita, sensational young (18) Apprentice Gordon Glisson. But soon after the four-horse field charged from the starting gate, Glisson found himself boxed in by three veteran riders, Johnny Longden, Ted Atkinson and Conn McCreary. The cagey veterans had the young "bug" rider where they wanted him, and they kept him there...
...picture has a few minor virtues, most of them negative. It is less noisy and violent than most semi-documentaries of its kind and its heroics are less improbable. A cagey use of understatement throughout gives the film an air of reality that is not backed up by its plot...