Word: doubletalked
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...matter what were my subjective hopes," groveled Writer Sun in a penitent doubletalk that sounded like a direct translation from the Russian, "the objective realization has proved to me that The Life of Wu Hsun ... is a movie harmful to the people. I can only hope to learn a lesson from my mistake and my failure...
Where Is the Church? Christendom (meaning "all Christians collectively") is split into disunited, sometimes warring, sects and churches, more than 250 in the U.S. alone. Protestants have lived with Christian fragmentation-and rationalized it with Christian doubletalk-for centuries (see box). But it has a way of bringing them up short whenever they confront the concept of "The Church." What is the Christian Church, and where...
...story of Stenographer Lauretta Young's mink coat was not exactly earthshaking, but at least it was almost understandable. That was more than could be said for the rest of the bewildering array of doubletalk, political shenanigans and obvious perjury inscribed last week on the records of the Senate subcommittee investigating operations of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...
This atomic-age potboiler appears to make sense to its adolescent audience. Many adult viewers are soon lost in its trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that...
...Seventh Fleet-were waiting for them. Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, Far East naval commander, held a secret conference on his flagship with the X Corps' Major General Edward M. Almond and other brass. Joy said the Navy was ready for "any eventuality"-which was official doubletalk for evacuation...