Word: doubletalked
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...Greenwich Village, an eager chewing-gum salesman complains that the girls who he thought wore the roundest of heels put out nothing but Freudian doubletalk...
...after this meeting,"* he shouted, "and before they do I want to make a statement of policy." But Harry's longshoremen would have none of him. They shouted and booed him, then roared overwhelming approval of a resolution which said: "We go on record without any doubletalk that we will support our Government and our President 100% in this great crisis and we will load any and all cargoes destined for the war area...
...India, Pakistan, Siam, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand will discuss economic and cultural cooperation and a vague proposal for a Southeast Asian union. According to Host Romulo, the conference would be "nonCommunist" rather than "anti-Communist," which was another way of saying that in all likelihood it would produce doubletalk instead of concrete action. Romulo himself last week gave a preview of the doubletalk. Said he: "The conference will be unmonolithic in nature, but multilingual, cultural and religious...
...What Mockery, What Doubletalk." As the thrashing in the bushes became more violent, the Administration suffered one sharp setback. It had demanded a $2 billion cooperative housing program for people of middle incomes ($60-$75 a week). Real estate operators, with some logic, called the program "inflationary," with some emotion dubbed it "socialistic," and succeeded in getting the measure killed out of the Senate's overall housing bill. From Key West, Harry Truman wrote a plea to Administration leaders on the Hill to save the program in the House. All veterans' organizations were for it, the A.F.L...
Most Republicans were against it. Charging that the Republicans were giving lip service to housing but undercutting it with their votes, Majority Leader John McCormack shouted: "What mockery it is, what doubletalk. One may fool the public today, but not next November, because this is going to be a live issue next fall." Republicans disregarded the threat, and so, for that matter, did 81 Democrats. The housing bill, providing close to $4.1 billion for Government loans, passed without Harry Truman's built-in feature for middle-income earners...