Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What Mockery, What Doubletalk." As the thrashing in the bushes became more violent, the Administration suffered one sharp setback. It had demanded a $2 billion cooperative housing program for people of middle incomes ($60-$75 a week). Real estate operators, with some logic, called the program "inflationary," with some emotion dubbed it "socialistic," and succeeded in getting the measure killed out of the Senate's overall housing bill. From Key West, Harry Truman wrote a plea to Administration leaders on the Hill to save the program in the House. All veterans' organizations were for it, the A.F.L...
Most Republicans were against it. Charging that the Republicans were giving lip service to housing but undercutting it with their votes, Majority Leader John McCormack shouted: "What mockery it is, what doubletalk. One may fool the public today, but not next November, because this is going to be a live issue next fall." Republicans disregarded the threat, and so, for that matter, did 81 Democrats. The housing bill, providing close to $4.1 billion for Government loans, passed without Harry Truman's built-in feature for middle-income earners...
...dead and something called bop was mushrooming in 52nd Street basements. Shearing took the best job he could get: a union-scale, six-night-a-week grind in a 52nd Street club. Surrounded by bop addicts, Shearing's piano soon lost its English accent, picked up American "progressive" doubletalk. But conservative Shearing stopped short of the bop-for-bop's-sake which was turning some U.S. jazz joints into headache factories, instead concentrated on what is called "polite bop." By the end of his first year his good manners had begun paying off. He organized a soft-spoken...
Book reviewers, says Book Reviewer John Betjeman (rhymes with ketchman), write in a code-or doubletalk-of their own. In the London Daily Herald, he let the readers in on his idea of what the critics' literary lingo really means...
...Dispond, went through Vanity Fair, passed the lion-guarded House Beautiful, profited from the counselings of Prudence, stumbled on the Hill called Difficulty, defeated Apollyon, a fiend, saw through the hollow words of Mr. Worldly Wiseman, encountered the contradictory Works of the Law, viewed the Delectable Mountains, encountered the doubletalk of Mr. By-ends of Fair-speech, and finally came to the Hill called Clear. But nowhere did anyone find Normalcy...