Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peremptory marching orders to American .fighting men belonging to NATO and his helpful comments on the U.S. dollar. Indulgent Frenchmen who have allowed Americans to dally with their daughters-and occasionally to marry their sisters-are at a loss to explain the Yankee ingratitude. Meanwhile, Americans are trying some coy and contrary ways of counterattacking...
...history," observed Economist J. Edward Meeker in 1930, "the American people can least afford to condemn speculation. The discovery of America was made possible by a loan based on the collateral of Queen Isabella's crown jewels, and at interest beside which even call-loan interest rates look coy and bashful. Financing an unknown foreigner to sail the unknown deep in three cockleshell boats in the hope of discovering a mythical Zipangu cannot, by the widest exercise of language, be called 'a conservative investment...
Bursting through the clouds, Jumper Robert Coy was astonished to find himself far out over the vast expanse of Lake Erie. "I was flabbergasted. I couldn't see land. Nothing. I could see the other parachutes going into the water." A passing boat rescued Coy and Bernard Johnson; two other chutists delayed their drop in order to jump from a still higher altitude and landed safely on the ground. A five-day search turned up ten bodies including one woman. The other six were presumed drowned...
...make Shakespeare as successful a screenwriter as Abby Mann." Thus spake Director Franco Zeffirelli last year when he began filming The Taming of the Shrew. The screen credits maintain the mock-the-bard tone: script billing goes to Zeffirelli, Paul Dehn and Suso Checchi D'Amico, with a coy acknowledgment "to William Shakespeare, without whom we would have been at a loss for words." The irreverence in this case is less a shame than a sham. Despite the disclaimer, Zeffirelli has succeeded in mounting the liveliest screen incarnation of Shakespeare since Olivier's Henry...
...affection for Big Labor. In return, Meany pronounced: "We have made greater progress with this Administration than with any other in my experience-including Franklin Roosevelt's." It was almost indecently early to be endorsing Lyndon Johnson's 1968 candidacy, but then Meany is anything but coy. "I endorse him right now," he said. The explanation was not hard to find. Last year's argy-bargy was a permissible luxury only as long as the Democrats had massive majorities in Congress. The prospect of hard fighting in 1968 has cooled heads and warmed hearts with wondrous effects...