Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked to identify the "selfish interests" who were using scare-words, Truman turned suddenly coy. He could not identify them at present, he said, but a little further along in the campaign he might identify some individuals and some special interests. "Which campaign?" a newsman shot back. The 1950 campaign, said Truman with a grin. The campaign always begins on Labor Day of the year before the election takes place-didn't he know that...
...comedy situations are irrepressibly coy; the songs and dances remorselessly routine. Most pointed comment on the movie's pace: the glazed look of indifference on the faces of the five babies...
...Johnson, chairman of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, stormed that the radio plans of "certain large distillers" were "vicious" and "reckless," and called the wavering radiomen "stupid." The Federal Communications Commission, which has indirect power to keep radio in line, reacted more mildly. FCC Chairman Wayne Coy was in Europe, and Commissioner-in-Charge Paul A. Walker would admit only that he had received some complaints against giveaway shows and other radio practices which he declined to specify. Said Walker soothingly: "The matter is under consideration, but I would hesitate to say anything until some conclusion [on liquor...
Grounders were bouncing off gloves like bric-a-brac off the Eliot House tower. Pop flies were acting like coy Annex sophomores. The freshmen couldn't get their hands on anything...
...larger share of radio's advertising. Despite the record revenue for the industry as a whole, one out of every four radio stations showed a loss last year. Nearly half of the 340 stations licensed in 1948 failed to break even. Things looked even worse for 1949. Warned Coy: "Make no mistake about it -television is here and here to stay . . . It is a new force unloosed in the land. I believe it is an irresistible force...