Word: bafflegab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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waffle. Doubletalk, or sometimes bafflegab. See FOREIGN NEWS, Without Waffle...
...York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, dismissed the Soviet lead in the space race as "more a question of acute embarrassment than national survival." Engineer T. Keith Glennan, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, called for a "sane course"-which in NASA bafflegab seems to mean the same program that has kept the U.S. lagging behind. Roy Johnson, head of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, could offer no better proposal than the creation of a "psychological warfare department" to "answer" Soviet space feats...
...that he is always correct." What lent fascination to this seemingly innocuous sentence from Peking's New China SemiMonthly was the fact that the Chinese word it used for "greatness" is one the Reds usually reserve for Mao Tse-tung. With customary bafflegab. Peking was publicly admitting that Chairman Mao has been forced into a humiliating retreat by the stubbornness of "The Old Hundred Names"-Red China's faceless peasant masses...
...Bafflegab: A First Reader...
...wonder how many of your readers resorted to aspirin after reading your March 24 article on bafflegab in the Business section. As for myself, may I use Shakespeare's appropriate statement: "I was never so bethump'd with words...