Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admit it is universal for Soviet Russians to use doubletalk when speaking to a foreigner (who is recognized by his clothes before he even opens his mouth). But in my 30 years of life in Russia, I never found enthusiasm for the regime to be anything but doubletalk, to be employed on formal occasions; the universal real attitude towards the authorities was one of reluctant submission...
...Paris last week (see above), had written her father asking him if he could bring Andrei Gromyko back to her as a present. Delegate Davies couldn't, but Britain's irrepressible Columnist Nat Gubbins promptly seized on the idea as perfect punishment for the man whose evasive doubletalk had left the West's representatives limp with frustration. Last week in his Sunday Express column, Gubbins gave a terrifying picture of what Sally might do to Gromyko in a few minutes' chat...
...matter what were my subjective hopes," groveled Writer Sun in a penitent doubletalk that sounded like a direct translation from the Russian, "the objective realization has proved to me that The Life of Wu Hsun ... is a movie harmful to the people. I can only hope to learn a lesson from my mistake and my failure...
Where Is the Church? Christendom (meaning "all Christians collectively") is split into disunited, sometimes warring, sects and churches, more than 250 in the U.S. alone. Protestants have lived with Christian fragmentation-and rationalized it with Christian doubletalk-for centuries (see box). But it has a way of bringing them up short whenever they confront the concept of "The Church." What is the Christian Church, and where...
...story of Stenographer Lauretta Young's mink coat was not exactly earthshaking, but at least it was almost understandable. That was more than could be said for the rest of the bewildering array of doubletalk, political shenanigans and obvious perjury inscribed last week on the records of the Senate subcommittee investigating operations of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...