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Word: cagiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy to poison, because it soon learns to detect a give-away taste or smell. But "1080," a chemical known as sodium fluoroacetate, fools the cagiest rat. It is soluble in water and can be offered in a tasteless solution. And a pinpoint of it kills a half-pound rat. Drawback: "1080" is also deadly to dogs, other "small mammals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The War Against Rats | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...that time, however, one of the cagiest men in one of the cooniest communities in the U.S. had seen Miss Bergman's Intermezzo. He usually got what he was after; and he was determined to get her. While calm Miss Bergman sat in Stockholm flicking off her wrist offers which nearly every actress in Europe would have rolled over and begged for, she reckoned without David O. Selznick. In that failure of reckoning began a sort of duel, and a sort of wooing, as rare in Hollywood as victorious talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: For Whom? | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...League's top scorer Princeton's Bud Palmer, who went for 18 markers against the Brownmen at Princeton, won the nod for the pivot post, and Captain Sam Hunter of Cornell, one of the cagiest players in the loop, won a guard post with Skaug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURDITT ONLY CRIMSON MAN ON IVY SQUAD | 3/17/1943 | See Source »

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