Word: cagey
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Rubens lived in an age when it was possible for an extravert to be a great painter, and for a great painter to be a great success. He took every advantage of it. He was a cagey businessman, among businessmen who knew and valued good painting when they saw it. He was an apt amateur diplomat in a day when diplomacy was not quite a profession. He was a prodigious worker (average: four to five days per painting, all his life), and he ordered his life to that end. He never drank nor gambled, seldom lunged at his models...
...Dodds was not invited back to the Garden until three weeks ago. Then, to the amazement of everyone except cagey Jack Ryder, Boston College coach who had been giving him lessons this winter, Mr. Dodds ran so fast he forced Greg Rice to chalk up the second fastest two miles (8:52.8) in the history of foot racing...
...from Congress. Four times before he's stymied any opposition to his special investigating committee, charging that anyone opposing it was so facto un-American. Would-be opposers were afraid of consequences back home where local papers would scream they had voted against the "great un-American Activities Committee." Cagey Dies knew his game well. He yelled he was saving America from catastrophy, let the anti-Red press give him free publicity in every corner of the country, and then dared any Representative to vote against his super self-publicity stunt. This kind of coercion has worked well for four...
...complicated. . . . Anyone who can read a telephone book can read this"). Jim Stanley and Westinghouse Production Engineer S. W. ("Bill") Schmidt went to Indianapolis, where a pool of 15 local factories and shops had agreed to try the plan in a small way. Bill Schmidt was a cagey tester, did not show his detailed drawing until he was sure that the local factories had doped out the directory properly on their own hook. But in ten days he had signed ten contracts...
...years ago when the war began. Senator Tom Connally was denouncing the Nazis on the torpedoing of the Kearny: "This murderous and foul crime must be avenged"; Secretary Hull was saying again that this act proved Hitler's plan for world domination. The President was still being cagey, and Alf Landon was still warning about collectivism in the New Deal. Martin Dies was still finding Communists in innumerable Government agencies...