Word: cagey
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...here is where we come to the cagey part of the whole thing. The traffic Commission SAYS the reason for moving the box across the street is to obtain a better view of the streets leading into the square. But formerly on cold winter evenings, about all a man on the job could get nearby to ease his chill was Turkish cigars and fruits. NOW the traffic controller is but three paces from the Varsity Liquor store...
This lack of action is due to hero-sheriff Tom Banning (Joel McCrea), who likes to talk first and shoot afterwards. Sheriff Tom is a pretty cagey fellow and things rarely get to the shooting stage. Banning further slows the story by explaining every important decision with a homey parable...
...this point it seemed as if O'Dwyer was bent on making enemies damaging to the party and vanishing from public life. But things didn't work out that way at all. A few weeks ago Ed Flynn, the cagey, power-minded Democratic boss of The Bronx, asked himself a very interesting question: "What if O'Dwyer resigned...
...week continued to wave his diplomatic muleta. Two weeks ago he had proposed a deal whereby U.N. would seat the Chinese Communist delegates; the Russians, in return, would come back to the Security Council table and "discuss" the question of how to stop the Korean war. Joseph Stalin, as cagey a bull as ever pawed the sand, eagerly endorsed the Pandit's proposal. Last week, in talks with British Ambassador Sir David Kelly, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in effect suggested the same deal...
...First catch a raccoon (a "cagey" animal), then go on from there...