Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American liberalism," announced their support of Truman. In print, their names had an odd, ghostly air, as if they were historical characters stepping out of a book of Roosevelt memoirs. Among them: Francis Biddle, Frank C. Walker, Dean Acheson, Thurman Arnold, Adolf Berle, Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Wayne Coy, Elmer Davis, Leon Henderson, Archibald MacLeish, Paul A. Porter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood, Aubrey Williams. A fortnight ago in Paris, U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been noticeably silent on presidential politics, took pen in hand and sent a letter to President Truman (published last week...
Television's growing pains have been showing up on receiving screens as wobbly pictures and queer noises. Last week FCC Chairman Wayne Coy ordered a halt of from "three to nine months" on approvals of new TV station applications...
...Chairman Coy had some soothing words for set owners. Whatever comes out of the conferences "will not affect present receivers at all." As for new buyers, if the prospective customer "is a fellow who always thinks there'll be a new model automobile coming up, I'd advise him not to buy. If he just wants to enjoy television, I'd say to go ahead...
Western Hospitality. Balloting for the leadership came last on the program, and by that time most of the opposition to Louis St. Laurent had faded away. After playing coy for two days, Nova Scotia Premier Angus L. Macdonald withdrew. Health Minister Paul Martin reluctantly got on the St. Laurent bandwagon. The Peck's Bad Boy of the Liberal Party, onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, never had a chance, and wound up with just 56 votes...
Said the new member in a coy acknowledgment to Chairman Coy: "You are the first commissioner who has ever wanted a woman...