Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life has changed little since Genoese Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, creating a path that many Italians have followed since. The people of San Marco live mainly on chestnuts and vegetables, seldom taste meat, except on four feast days each year. Last week the dour and cagey villagers danced self-consciously in the streets before the cameras that had come to record the biggest event ever to take place in San Marco d'Urri...
...official Soviet announcement was a mixture of specific information and cagey reticence. "The launching was done," it said, "by means of a multistage rocket carrying an automatic interplanetary station. After reaching the necessary speed, the last stage of the rocket put the station into the required orbit...
From Athens, Grivas promptly denounced Makarios' charges as "a fairy tale," challenged him to come to Greece for a public debate of their differences. Makarios, too cagey to be lured into an encounter where" he would, in effect, be standing public trial with Grivas as his prosecutor, promptly refused. At that, Bishop Kyprianos came out in public support of Grivas. Worse yet, Kyprianos raked up once again the old, emotion-charged issue of enosis-union of Cyprus and Greece-and urged Cypriots to denounce the settlement with Britain as "a national tragedy...
Just as the professor is about to put a new broom to all the cobwebbed corners and mend some of the broken lives around him, the count returns. He flings his wife out the window, hoping to frame his double, but the cagey Briton, now enjoying his imposture, proves himself innocent and refuses to be relieved of stewardship. The two Guinnesses shoot it out in a cryptic climax that leaves both audience and the chateau puppets dangling in confusion...
Reluctant to answer directly to questions about their relation to the Arab countries of the middle east, and cagey about the prospect of accepting Red China's arms, the two Algerians showed themselves students of politics, diplomacy, and intrigue. They were asked the same cautious questions on each campus, questions about the governmental and disciplinary structure of a post-war Algeria; fears about reprisals against the colonials, and about possible Communist influence in the Algerian freedom front. When their own turn came to ask questions, the Algerians showed their awareness of American affairs. They were disturbed mainly by the proviso...