Word: doubletalked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists evidently felt that the authority of the "people's government" needed bolstering. They said it was provisional; Red Mayor Ebert promised "free" elections as soon as "self-evident suppositions" could be established (doubletalk meaning "as soon as a Communist victory could be safely rigged...
llya Ehrenburg, strong-arm boy of Communism's literary goon squad, got roughed up a bit himself. llya, charged the Yugoslav Writers' Union in a classic piece of Marxist doubletalk, had himself been wavering from the party line on art. In one of Ilya's recent articles, he had expressed certain "esthetic sympathies" and had supported ideas "with which leading Soviet critics and also our own do not agree...
...free to travel about the country addressing meetings. On these occasions, he manages with a 'bridled tongue' to boldly play safe. And he has had more freedom to write articles in which he shows the result of his acquired caution by avoiding disturbing statements [with] well-intended doubletalk...
...make up the difference by cooking up things to put on the screen. Some of the devices were effective and to the point-e.g., the simple scoreboards and graphs that gave the returns at a glance (but not the detail-packed blackboard charts that looked like visual doubletalk...
...load off her chest. The load: a 663-page, tightly packed book called: Stalin and German Communism, A Study in the Origins of the State Party.* The book was more than the heavy-going history its heavy Germanic title implied. It was also an intimate, encyclopedic exposure of the doubletalk and doublecrossing among top-level Communists...