Word: coye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not a gentle image. Indeed, Schwartz takes her title from Andrew Marvell's poem To His Coy Mistress...
...past, Reagan has repeatedly called for the rejection of SALT II, but in his Chicago speech, he retreated into coy equivocation, suggesting he might continue SALT and seek reductions in the next round of negotiations. That is almost identical to Carter's present policy...
...England voters should show they want men of candor--not the coy openness of Carter's "I will never tell a lie" but an intellectual frankness about specific proposals and ideas. This sort of discourse has a way of dispelling the fog of political war; it exposes blithe folksiness for unprincipled ambition, stern patriotism for irresponsible battle-lust...