Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Governor is either too much of a gentleman or too cagey to say precisely why he does not want Griffiths on his ticket. He did not cite her age and said only that he felt that dropping her was in the best interests of the state...
Like any other wounded animal, the tobacco industry is lashing back. Realizing that their flat-earth rhetoric about the "inconclusive" and "tenuous" links between smoking and disease is no longer fooling anybody, their defense has become more shrill, more cagey. Call it a three-pronged attack; the metaphor conjures up images of pitchforks, which nicely complement the satanic motif already inherent in fire, smoke and self-inflicted suffering...