Word: cryptically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...good times were coming. A kite of brilliant feathers perched on his bow and dazzled his enemies' eyes out. Then one day in 660 B.C. he acceded to the world-throne-i.e., Japan's; and the cloudless blue weather of that day made him utter four cryptic words which now are taken to mean that Japan should expand to the ends of the earth: "Eight directions...
...also been the White House spokesman. Once he delivered what sounded like a Presidential rebuke to Henry Wallace for urging the Third Term. Once he relayed the President's views on the Monroe Doctrine in terms so confusing that neither State Department papers, editorials or his own cryptic statements later could clear them up. But none of these compared with his act last week...
...lithographs, Matisse accentuates certain elements of form and composition which, in his paintings, are less obvious. In other words, when we look at one of his prints we are better able to discover just what the artist is trying to do; his paintings, though by no means cryptic, require greater exercise of critical powers...
...there was Emily Dickinson, hidden away in a big house at Amherst where few people ever saw her. She used to send her friends cryptic little notes, often only a single line: "Do you look out tonight?"; "Mrs. S. gets bigger and rolls down the lane to church like a reverend marble"; "Not what the stars have done, but what they are to do, is what detains the sky." She seldom addressed the notes herself. Usually the names and addresses were clipped out of a newspaper and pasted on the envelopes...
...cryptic communique issued last night by the Flag Officers stated that, "Plans are maturing. The flotilla will proceed under sealed orders to be given out tomorrow night. No enemy opposition is expected...