Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This atomic-age potboiler appears to make sense to its adolescent audience. Many adult viewers are soon lost in its trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that...
...Seventh Fleet-were waiting for them. Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, Far East naval commander, held a secret conference on his flagship with the X Corps' Major General Edward M. Almond and other brass. Joy said the Navy was ready for "any eventuality"-which was official doubletalk for evacuation...
...Greenwich Village, an eager chewing-gum salesman complains that the girls who he thought wore the roundest of heels put out nothing but Freudian doubletalk...
...after this meeting,"* he shouted, "and before they do I want to make a statement of policy." But Harry's longshoremen would have none of him. They shouted and booed him, then roared overwhelming approval of a resolution which said: "We go on record without any doubletalk that we will support our Government and our President 100% in this great crisis and we will load any and all cargoes destined for the war area...
...India, Pakistan, Siam, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand will discuss economic and cultural cooperation and a vague proposal for a Southeast Asian union. According to Host Romulo, the conference would be "nonCommunist" rather than "anti-Communist," which was another way of saying that in all likelihood it would produce doubletalk instead of concrete action. Romulo himself last week gave a preview of the doubletalk. Said he: "The conference will be unmonolithic in nature, but multilingual, cultural and religious...