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Word: coyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This coy summons in English appears on a big poster in the lobby of the Hotel Condestable in brown old Burgos. Similar appeals from a dollar-hungry Government can be seen in most of the world's tourist offices. Whether you will find what they promise depends on your definition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAY STATIONS: YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE HALF THE DANGER | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...Coy Game. Russia's Gromyko played a coy game. First he roused Arab hopes by voting for immediate decision of the Palestine question. Then he disappointed them by plugging to give the Jewish Agency a voice in full Assembly proceedings. But in Russian Assembly maneuvers and recent publications supporting Arab hopes, one object was apparent: to get the British out of Palestine (and the Middle East) as soon as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: By the Waters of Flushing | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...also played coy. First it heartened Zionists by opposing full discussion of the Palestine case this session. Then it disappointed them by voting against admission of the Jewish Agency to the Assembly floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: By the Waters of Flushing | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...before the war, when four Harvard men returned to the building after a late round of squash. They were singing the song of lifebuoy under the showers when the first swimmers arrived and, in the old tradition, promptly scared the daylights out of George with a series of coy screams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Count 'em---Forty Beautiful Girls Cavort in College Pool | 4/25/1947 | See Source »

...some comfort from the fact that his partner's wife (Ellen Drew) and the murdered girl's sister (Evelyn Keyes) are both crazy about him. A tired police inspector, well played by hulking Lee J. Cobb, finally unravels the puzzle. But the story is told with such coy head-jerkings and pregnant silences that only a hardened whodunit fan can be sure of what's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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