Word: doubletalked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murder"? Then why the soft word, the wiggle word, the euphemism? "Murder" is clear in meaning, one syllable and three letters more concise than this clumsy circumlocution which with ... a score or more of other obscure terms have oozed up from the quagmires of European political intrigue and diplomatic doubletalk...
Governor Tom Dewey enjoyed a cautious bout of political doubletalk with a traveling foreign diplomat. Discussing France's Charles de Gaulle, the diplomat declared himself strongly against any general as chief of state. Grinning broadly, Candidate Dewey, with at least one other general in mind, nodded enthusiastic agreement...
...Manhattan, the amateurish Draft-Eisenhower-for-President League granted its 17th and 18th state charters (to chapters in New York and Massachusetts). It also began passing out buttons ("I Like Ike") and got all tangled up in the political doubletalk of the week: "We want to keep away from any implication that he is a candidate. Though he hasn't said he won't be, he definitely has said he isn't." In New Haven, barnstorming Henry Wallace back-patted Ike as a "singularly enlightened man," predicted that he could win the presidency on either ticket, would...
...ameliorating resolution was in part political doubletalk. It accepted the group voting plan, but asserted: "In the event of any attempt at . . . compulsion, a province or a part of a province has the right to take such action necessary as to give effect to the wishes of the people concerned." Since the British plan was only for constitution-drafting, this represented little change except to give the Congress Party a future out if some Congress provinces or districts later proved recalcitrant...
...constructive program of its own. But business had now learned better. Now, N.A.M. was trying to establish itself "as an organization . . . believing that industry and the country's welfare must move forward together." Henceforth, N.A.M. would try to solve the nation's legitimate economic problems with "no doubletalk, no weasel-wording, no ducking the tough ones...