Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Despite this irrefutable logic, said the Soviet press, Comrade Vakhlin was expelled from the party and fired from his job. Later, for unstated reasons, he was reinstated in the party and is now trying to practice law. But, runs the coy official moral, "the cow won't be reincarnated and the bologna has been eaten." Minimum meaning: Siberia is vast, and there is always room there for another Russian...
...French Existentialist named Jean Bacon, a young woman became confused about problems of "being and nothingness" and asked the lecturer where babies came from. Said M. Bacon with Gallic urbanity: "De ses parents, évidemment!" (From their parents, naturally). Oxford's weekly Isis discussed the lecture under the coy title "Sartre Resartus...