Word: bleat
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When Hitler's SS bullies were still in knee pants, the Frankfurter Zeitung was a great and influential liberal newspaper, respected the world over as "the Manchester Guardian of Germany." In 1934 the Zeitung was briefly suppressed for printing Franz von Papen's one & only anti-Nazi bleat (attacking the "fanatical" wing of the Party). After that the Zeitung kept its tongue in cheek. Skillfully buried in its dreary business columns were more facts about Hitler's Germany than were reported anywhere else; its editorials condemned anti-Nazi incidents as a means of reporting them, and slyly...
...picture aerates a lot of its staleness with pace, surface wit, some crisp acting. As a henpecked satyr, Roland Young is still the alltime master of twiddle, the fatuous innuendo, the Britannic bleat. Fred MacMurray is an experienced cutup too. But some cinemaddicts may feel that Paulette Goddard is on the brink of overstatement when she exclaims: "Every time I see him I get weak in the knees...
When it came this week, it was a mild bleat against the Bolivian Government and "subversive groups hostile to the Allied cause." The Secretary refused to recognize Bolivia's Villarroel, but said nothing directly about Argentina's Colonels. For reasons of his own, President Roosevelt at the last moment had instructed Cordell Hull to erase all direct references to Argentina...
...compass marches over unmarked, blacked-out terrain. On these marches they wade creeks, slosh through mires, sleep wet and muddy on open ground without bedroll or tent. They live off the country, learn how to kill a sheep by cracking its neck with a quick twist (so that its bleat will not betray them), how to butcher it and start cooking within seven minutes...
...course sympathizers will bleat their Communist-taught singsong about "labor-haters" in order to keep Labor's "sacred cow" status but they're overplaying their hands now and the public will back the corrective measures...