Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politicos got a shock: Tom Dewey, a cool politician, appeared to have outsmarted himself. He had played coy a little too long. Six months ago, he was first told of plans to enter a slate of Dewey-pledged delegates in Wisconsin's Presidential primary. Last week, before Wendell Willkie announced that he would stump the state in person, the New York Governor could have withdrawn his name and maintained intact his pose of aloofness to party leadership. But the Dewey delegates, though forewarned of his intentions, had filed their entries last week before Dewey released the news that...
...SmallTown Girl." Except when it is the most effective way to get things done, Anna Rosenberg is never coy. Dynamic small (5 ft. 3 in., 115 lb.), dark and 43, she has always stayed away from Washington jobs - except at the weekly visit-to-the-President level. She is reluctant to go to Washington because: 1) "I work best in the field. . . . I'm just a small-town girl"; 2) "I still think the war is nowhere near over"; 3) her husband Julius, a well-known rug dealer, and all her roots are firmly embedded in Manhattan concrete...
With the feeling that somewhere among you there must be ine who has yet to hear of our trip to Montreal, the highlights of the aforementioned will now be reviewed in a finale befitting its grandeur, finally she declared, with some emphasizing that if we wanted to be coy it was all right with her and she would save us both time by directing herself and party to our room...
...Army's coy insistence on the anonymity (as a military secret) of "General X," press spokesman for General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Britain...
...America, NBC had left only one half-hour of its entire network time of 60 weekly hours: a sour Saturday morning spot (10-10:30) that usually catches only 15% of the nation's radio ear. CBS, Mutual and the Blue Network, a bit less jammed, were coy about just how much. But the 1943 gross for the Big Four will run to around $145,000,000, 20% above...