Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alvarez has already written one medical bestseller, Nervous Indigestion. Laymen like his cheerful, chatty style, free from scientific doubletalk, full of Aesopic richness of anecdote, character sketches in which many a reader may recognize himself. Sample anecdotes...
With these characteristic words, Harold Le( )Cla(i)r(e)* I ekes throws a drawerful of gantlets into a gallery of faces and squares off. In his 350 pages Curmudgeon Ickes knots himself up in every possible variety and paradox of his personality, exposing himself mercilessly to his own doubletalk. To discourage any who might feel sympathy for America's most vilified celebrity, Ickes never fails to put his worst foot forward, to beg for brickbats ("Me? I don't mind.") Few readers will be deceived by this psychological strategy. Out of these ungainly, ranting pages...
...this talk, the High Command had its own reasons. It was at least doubletalk...
Ever since June of 1941, when Russia became an unexpected ally, the U.S. has stepped gingerly around the great diplomatic complications, has spoken of it in doubletalk, has tried to pretend none existed. The British have signed a 20-year Treaty of Alliance with Russia...
Leaving the same trail of dead Nazis and sabot age which has been the subject of pictures since. Hitler invaded Austria, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, and company tear and blast their way across Germany to the Dutch frontier with blood, sweat, and doubletalk. They are captured innumerable times by the Gestapo, but since, as everybody knows, the Germans don't eat Wheaties, the picture ends with their inevitable escape to England in a captured bomber...