Word: coy
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...before the war, when four Harvard men returned to the building after a late round of squash. They were singing the song of lifebuoy under the showers when the first swimmers arrived and, in the old tradition, promptly scared the daylights out of George with a series of coy screams...
...some comfort from the fact that his partner's wife (Ellen Drew) and the murdered girl's sister (Evelyn Keyes) are both crazy about him. A tired police inspector, well played by hulking Lee J. Cobb, finally unravels the puzzle. But the story is told with such coy head-jerkings and pregnant silences that only a hardened whodunit fan can be sure of what's going...
...connection with the Greek regime, remote as it is, has been a slight hitch. But last week, as plain Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, Prince Philip was granted his British citizenship, and even that hitch seemed to have been overcome. When Elizabeth is asked about her engagement, she replies with a coy, "For that you must wait and see." But the Empire is quite prepared to welcome...
...girls have to say, it is hard to believe that they have any marital designs on Harvard men. When closely grilled, most would not admit any overwhelming desire for Harvard's sons in preference to the Man In The Street. In fact, the most striking thing about all their coy answers was that they really couldn't decide just what they really did or didn't like in men, much less...
...Kollontay had temporarily broken with the party and led the Workers Opposition Movement; now she gave what looked like a coy explanation of why she took so long to be converted to Stalinism: "Stalin . . . always seemed engrossed in his thoughts, so that when we met him, we hesitated to accost him for fear of interrupting his chain of thought...