Word: cagier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smart is the first to admit that there will be cagier seamen than he in the competition even though he's been handling the tiller according to one Nantucket legend since the tender age of six. But "there's only so much skill in handling a boat, and from there Lady Luck takes over," he says...
They also heard from a Baptist layman who had been to Russia, but who was far cagier in his report than Traveler Newton had been. G.O.P. White House-hunter Harold E. Stassen voiced his "sober optimism" that the U.S. could win the peace by remaining strong and being wise, and hoped that Americans "will never surren er to the insidious whisper of the inevitability of war." He also had something to say about the convention's business: "I wish to state simply and directly that I do not agree with" two of the convention's resolutions...