Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proud of his role in this task, and partly in consequence, he has recently made an unorthodox and undictatorlike decision. He says, repeatedly, that at the end of his term, in June 1956, he intends to step out of the presidency. A promise to leave power, followed by a coy show of succumbing to duty and staying on, is standard politics in Latin America. But Odria seems firmly set on leaving. Said he recently: "The constitution clearly states that at the end of my term I must go. That is what I plan to do. Moreover, I am tired...
...like to be President," he told a TIME reporter. "Any politician who is forthright, honest and candid must confess that it is the greatest honor which can come to a citizen. I'm not going to lie to the people, and I'm not going to be coy." In the political sawdust of California, Goodie Knight is not the only or the leading presidential possibility. Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator William Knowland both have ambitions for the highest office too. The Senator, preoccupied with Asian policy and sometimes out of step with the Eisenhower Administration...
Playful Japanese husbands tend to find this coy secrecy infinitely charming, but hardhearted Japanese tax collectors are less pleased by it: Suspecting, that many a plump income lurks behind the kimonoed coquetry of their nation's 29,065 licensed geishas, the taxmen have evolved a system whereby a geisha's income is estimated on the basis of the time she spends at work. Those suspected of earning more than $500 a year are taxed as high...
...close, there was plenty of audience praise, though some thought the girls were a little overdrilled and too heavily coy. Next morning, the critics were unanimous. "Up goes the Iron Curtain on enchanting dancers," said the News Chronicle. Wrote the Times: "An example of Russian theatrical art [which], when it comes West, always surprises us anew, delights us with its Tightness as well as its distinction, and puts a spell...
...exact parody* written, like Pamela, in the form of letters. In it, he turned a drily realistic eye on Pamela's character and behavior. In Fielding's view, Richardson's Pamela was a sham, not so much the valiant defender of her virtue as its coy auctioneer, shrewdly holding out for the highest bid. Fielding's Shamela is an honest doxie who blats about her "Vartue" from time to time, but belongs essentially to the long line of fiction's profiteering amorists reaching to Scarlett O'Hara and Amber...