Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offensive significantly swelled anti-Europe sentiment in Britain at a time when Macmillan's government is already dangerously weak. The raucous debate strengthened the hand of the 4O-odd right-wing Tory rebels who would like nothing better than to retreat from Europe. And, after a year of cagey fence straddling, Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell vaulted into the debate to decry the Common Market's terms of admission as "too damaging to be acceptable." The Labor Party, he hinted, may soon call for a general election to bring down Macmillan's government...
Customers, many of whom have little brand loyalty, have become cagey in playing the ups and downs at the fuel pumps. Says Detroit Independent Lee Rogers: "When prices go up, customers start buying 50? worth at a time, waiting for prices to go back down before they fill up. The sad part of this thing is that they are right...
...reaction from Bonn was immediate. C.D.U. spokesmen suddenly discov ered that Strauss was "indispensable," said the party would "sincerely and deeply regret" his departure. Adenauer, who had been cool to Strauss for months, in vited him for two intimate chats at which the Defense Minister unburdened his complaints. The cagey Chancellor listened, then told Strauss that he was a fine fellow whose resignation would force an embarrassing reshuffle of the Cabinet. By the time the talks were over, Munich had faded from Strauss's memory and Bonn felt like home again...
...books, it is coyly set in the form of autobiography-but-not-really; its narrator, as usual, is a ventriloquist's dummy named Christopher Isherwood whose surface sometimes seems faintly warm. Characteristically, there is too little fiction for a novel, too little truth for autobiography. Yet in his cagey, canny way, the author has written an engaging work of self-revelation...
Even the secretary of the Fogg flunked this question-not to mention the chairman of Princeton's art department. Other guests scored themselves on sheets of paper, compared their verdicts with the officially announced facts, and quietly crumpled their papers. One expert was too cagey to take the test at all. "I could say." said James Rorimer, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "that I can't see without my glasses." A trifle icily he added: "People shouldn't come in to a dinner party and give offhand opinions about what's genuine and what...