Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political supporter, made an alliance with the Socialists. Then the two groups signed up two minor pro-government parties in a "Democratic Front." Avowed purpose of the front: "To defend the Guatemalan Revolution and unify the [government] forces in the struggle against anti-Communism." That, translated out of political doubletalk, meant that Guatemala's Communists are still influencing the government and wielding power far out of proportion to their actual numbers...
...Girl in Every Port (RKO Radio] has Groucho Marx, but not much else, in its favor. Teamed with William Bendix, Groucho is a Navy veteran with a talent for swindling landlubbers. Starting with a race horse with bad legs, he launches a series of doubletalk deals that get him involved with gangsters, saboteurs, ringers and Marie Wilson. The plot, which limps as badly as Groucho's horse, fortunately has room for a number of familiar set pieces: Groucho confounding his Navy commander, Groucho playing a Kentucky colonel, Groucho leering at Marie Wilson. Director Chester Erskine, who also wrote...
Time was when Joe Louis let his eloquent fists do his talking for him. But last week the ex-heavyweight champion found himself shadow-boxing with an elusive opponent: racial discrimination, disguised in doubletalk. Joe fumbled for the right words, then angrily called it "the biggest fight of my life." Specifically, Joe was squaring off against the Professional Golfers' Association, which allows only "Caucasians" to enter a P.G.A.-sponsored tournament...
...escape clauses. Nonetheless, continuing inspection was a seeming concession which five years ago would have been hailed with hope and cheers. But as of last week, when Soviet Russia's words without deeds no longer had the power to stir, U.S. Representative Ernest A. Gross dismissed it as "doubletalk without meaning...
...early years fitted him for the Communist aristocracy-a poor childhood, the Czar's army at 18, underground intrigue with secret printing presses, a term in prison, escape. In exile, he became boss of the party's international "transport," which is Communist doubletalk for the smuggling of arms, money and secret communications. "As long as Papasha is there," Lenin remarked admiringly one day in 1904, "we shall have transport...