Word: coye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distorted American presidential politics, three times a possible candidate and three times pulling back. "I would like to be President," he said at one point, "but not at this time." Now, disdainful of Carter's leadership, he has decided that the time is right. After a considerable amount of coy public indecision, he is expected to announce this week that he has formed a campaign committee, headed by Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith, 52, who helped run John Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1960. Then, barring some highly unlikely event, Edward Moore Kennedy, 47, will formally declare before Thanksgiving that...
Politeness in Boston, coy courtship in Chicago...
Benn's politics veered toward the radical left about ten years ago, when he embraced a Fabian socialism tinged with Marxism. Once coy about his ambition to become party leader, he recently declared that he "would like very much to be elected to that office...
...years, Playboy has uncovered 305 Playmates, reason enough for Publisher Hugh Hefner to invite them to a grand anniversary bash. Among the 136 who came was blond Janet Pilgrim, whose three centerfolds in 1955-56 remain the individual record. Considering what her successors have been revealing, Pilgrim was positively coy. One pose, reproduced at the party, shows her wearing only a white fur stole but exposing little more than cleavage. Pilgrim's progress has been pretty good: now 45 and the mother of two teenage girls, Hefner's pioneer pinup is still as pretty as her picture...
...called down to men, and played cute little pranks like getting some guy to burst into my room at 3 a.m. and jump on my bed while they laughed maniacally outside. Welcome to summer camp. One of them, Lori, was a real space shot; she babbled in a soft, coy voice and wandered about in heavy makeup, glassy eyed. The other, Tamara, was an aggressive, competitive overachiever who raved about her work, her perfect, clean-cut, overachiever boyfriend, and her virginity...