Word: baloneyed
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That kind of campaigning is basically a mindless operation -thus an escape from real work. No decisions are required, no memos need be digested, no concentration is necessary. A President can roll effortlessly from place to place, mouthing the same old baloney. There is sometimes a kind of sensual gratification from handshaking, being pressed by the crowds, waving arms and slapping backs...
Whatever the Greeks thought about U.S. intentions, Washington claimed neutrality in the Greek-Turkish dispute. It was "pure baloney" to say otherwise, said Robert McCloskey, an aide to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The U.S. threatened to cut off arms aid to both sides if they went to war. Kissinger himself talked with Caramanlis and Ecevit by telephone and urged the Turks not to use further force. He later offered his offices as mediator, either in Nicosia or Washington. In a gesture to placate Greece, the U.S. pulled out Ambassador Henry J. Tasca, who was far too closely identified with...
...committee report, the long arguments before the Supreme Court-would further numb the minds of many Watergate-weary Americans. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler dismissed the Judiciary Committee transcripts as part of "a hyped-up public relations campaign," and the Watergate committee allegations about the Rebozo fund as "warmed-over baloney...
After paying tribute to his colleagues and to the committee staff, Ervin was presented with a 10-lb. sausage by Committee Counsel Samuel Dash, in recognition of White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler's denunciation of the committee's special report on Rebozo as "warmed-over baloney." Then Sam Ervin delivered a short speech, quoting right and left from his favorite writings, and it was over...
Both boys are right-partly. There is quite a bit of baloney in Grandma's book, but along with such things as an especially treacly view of her husband's disposition and career that all but the most ardent Kennedy fans will find hard to swallow, the reader is offered much nourishment. He learns a good deal, for example, about the frail, "funny little boy" who became President; about J.F.K.'s older sister Rosemary, who was retarded from birth; about that conscientious younger brother Bob; about the hard work that marriage demands-even from the very rich...