Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having said all of this, Malenkov fell back on the familiar Soviet doubletalk about "certain American circles" who are "putting their stakes on war," and called NATO "the main threat to the cause of peace." He talked fondly of Iran, and wished to be "good neighborly" with Turkey; he was anticipating "normalization" of relations with Yugoslavia and Greece; he was anxious to supply bread, coal and business contracts to "the glorious Italian people"; he sympathized with Japanese attempts "to win back the independence of their country" from...
...most complete report of what happened came not from the usual "well-informed sources" but from the Reds' own Pravda of Pilsen, center of the giant Lenin (formerly Skoda) Works. It was written in Communist doubletalk, but remarkably candid for all that: "On June 1, some politically unaware workers let themselves be persuaded into believing that the currency reform was aimed at them, and that they would not be able to live on their new wages and would go hungry. They staged antistate demonstrations ... In the town hall rioters tore down pictures of Czech state leaders and hung...
...Talk & Doubletalk. In 1943, at a time when the Germans were still in Russia, Stalin was ready to talk with his wartime allies. "I think I can personally handle Stalin ..." confident Franklin Roosevelt had written to Winston Churchill. At Teheran, Roosevelt was persuaded by Stalin to take up residence in the Russian embassy. When Churchill raised the question of supervised elections in Poland, Stalin snapped: "You cannot do that. The Poles are an independent people and they would not want to have their election supervised by others." When Churchill mentioned the Vatican, Stalin asked: "How many divisions has the Pope...
Almost every business has its own specialized speech and the above paragraphs are written in the trade talk of the printing and publishing business, with a few words and phrases peculiar to TIME itself. I thought you (both subs and NS readers) might enjoy translating the apparent doubletalk. Here is a glossary of some of the everyday expressions used in TIME'S editorial circulation, advertising and production departments: Bioperse (n.) : Biographical and personality material...
...street had his say about the presidential campaign last week and left the situation at least as muddied as before. On Candid Camera, Allen Funt's TVersion of his Candid Microphone, Doubletalk Artist Dick Christman swapped opinions with representative members of the electorate. Samples...