Word: doubletalk
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Personal timekeepers (trade doubletalk for watches) do not use anything as fancy as hydrogen atoms. Since the 17th century they have depended on a delicate hairspring that keeps a balance wheel turning backward and forward at a regular rate. But last week Bulova Watch...
...book, Christian Theology and Natural Science, by identifying creation "not with an act in the past by which the world was originated, but with an incessant activity [of God] by which it is conserved in existence . . . Preservation and creation are really identical." This, to Huxley, is nothing but "doubletalk. The whole range of physicochemical and biological phenomena can now be accounted for in principle in naturalistic terms: to invoke the operation of God in the process is not only unnecessary but intellectually dubious...
...THIS NONSENSE ABOUT STATE PRIMARIES AND FIRST AND SECOND AND THIRD BALLOTS AT CONVENTIONS ? WHY NOT ELECT A MAN WHO HAS ABILITY, EXPERIENCE, INTELLIGENCE AND INDEPENDENCE ? TIME IS NOW TO MOBILIZE YOUR READERSHIP AND ELECT RESTON PRESIDENT AND BARBARA WARD VICE PRESIDENT ON A TWO-WORD PLATFORM: "NO DOUBLETALK." WALTER WANGER LOS ANGELES...
...waffle. Doubletalk, or sometimes bafflegab. See FOREIGN NEWS, Without Waffle...
...cross purposes than in the past, and with better understanding of opposing points of view." Khrushchev, said Herter, had said there was a need for "a common language despite the ideological conflict to which he staunchly adheres. Many will find this hard to believe after the years of baffling doubletalk. Yet I believe that on certain fundamentals we can find a common language because we have a common interest. That interest lies simply in the basic will to survive, shared by free men and Communists alike...