Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named John ("Dizzy") Gillespie, "looking for a way to emphasize the more beautiful notes in swing," explained: "When you hum it, you just naturally say 'bebop, be-de-bop.' " What be-bop amounts to: hot jazz overheated, with overdone lyrics full of bawdiness, references to narcotics, and doubletalk...
...Poles understand democracy, and not in the Western sense." This was perhaps the first time that a fundamental difference between the Russian and Western meanings of "democracy" had been proclaimed in an official statement. It served notice that the Yalta agreement on "free and unfettered elections" was also Yaltese doubletalk...
...many-tongued press, which is the world's mouthpiece, does not always talk with the mild forthrightness of the New York Times,. Sometimes it talks doubletalk, sometimes out of the side of its mouth, sometimes it mumbles through a gag of censorship or of its own stupidity. Some of the strangled sounds emitted here & there last week...
...wide, flat valley dotted with greasewood, yucca and bunch grass selected as site for the test explosion is known in Manhattan Project doubletalk as "Trinity." Most of the land once belonged to a rancher named MacDonald, whose wrecked ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman...
...Victor Borge, Danish-born satirist, whose slow-drawled doubletalk went over fast in U.S. nightclubs, and sounded just slow...