Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Life. Businesslike and notably hardworking, he runs Morocco's affairs with a good executive's cool hand and hot impatience with doubletalk ("You say what you have to say in five minutes." explains one of his ministers. "He asks you a few questions-right to the point-and that's that"). Though he is a tireless administrator, he enjoys his time off: a dash into the country in a Cadillac or Mercedes or Rolls, an energetic game of boules (lawn bowling) with a few French servants and friends, a simple meal (French cuisine) followed...
Next day, and the day after that, Faubus resolved any doubts that might have lingered in his favor. "Doubletalk" was his word for the efforts of the President and the Southern governors to make peace. "I write my statements from this end of the line. They can write theirs from that end," he said. "I am standing...
...remained for Secretary of Labor Jim Mitchell to make the first effective public reply to the political doubletalk that the G.O.P. sponsors of strong civil rights legislation are somehow standing in the way of progress by opposing the Senate's weak version. "It is very disappointing to me," said Mitchell at a news conference in San Francisco, "to see so many of those to whom we usually look for support in the field of civil rights running from the field before the whistle is blown...
...advanced training in doubletalk, no classroom in the Communist world last week could match Peking's Huai Jen Hall, site of the fourth meeting of Red China's National People's Congress. Led off by Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, July 8), Peking's Marxist mandarins popped up, one by one, to assure the pseudo Parliament that the nation was in splendid shape. Then, one by one, they cited statistics demonstrating that the best-laid plans of Mao's men have gone agley...
...strains outside are also visible inside the Congress-controlled Parliament itself. This week when Food Minister A. P. Jain tried to gloss over the nation's acute food shortage with bureaucratic doubletalk, he was hooted down by Congress Party M.P.s. When Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari announced sharp increases in taxes on railway fares, gasoline and vegetable oils, the Congress benches moaned, denounced their own new budget as a program designed to "soak the poor." Said one Congressman in Bombay: "It's getting fashionable to be anti-Congress...