Word: doubletalked
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DISARMAMENT: "Each stage of disarmament," said Khrushchev in his departing Washington press conference, should be "accompanied by the development of inspection and control." The West, accustomed to Russian doubletalk on disarmament and thoroughly unimpressed by Khrushchev's big U.N. propaganda pitch, took a hard look at this statement, got ready to find out, when the nuclear-test-ban talks resume next month in Geneva, if the Russians will take a more realistic position on inspection...
...London meeting Sedov even seemed to enjoy his own doubletalk. When the Russians withdrew an astronomical paper, Sedov admitted to a Russian-speaking colleague that the reason was that British figures proved it erroneous. But when a British reporter asked for corroboration, Sedov offered three other explanations in quick succession : 1) there were too many papers already; 2) it would have been given if the author had been on hand; and 3) there were not enough Russian scientists present to discuss it. He chuckled merrily at each new alibi...
...nationalized mines lost $9,000,000 last year. But when the U.S. got tired of talking and suspended aid to Bolivia, Siles was in an even worse bind. At first word that the boondoggle might end, the miners marched out on strike. The solution was a classic of doubletalk. Siles promised the U.S. to cut the subsidy gradually over a period of four months. To the union leaders, he promised a 35% pay raise. Result: everyone went back to work, and the International Cooperation Administration mailed off a check. How long Siles can continue his act is another matter. Both...
...important only if it essays to be important. If it adopts the manners and philosophy and outlook of a minor expression, then a minor expression it will be. If it aspires to an esthetic of doubletalk, just that will be its position, nothing more, and life itself will walk around it and let it alone...
...DENVER POST: OUR view is that millions of people were shaken by Republican doubletalk over the budget two years ago, the U.S. lag in missiles and the race for outer space, the incredible confusion over civil defense, the Sherman Adams case, Little Rock, and the antics of John Foster Dulles. It all adds up to weak, distracted and irrationalized leadership...