Word: doubletalked
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...this talk, the High Command had its own reasons. It was at least doubletalk...
Ever since June of 1941, when Russia became an unexpected ally, the U.S. has stepped gingerly around the great diplomatic complications, has spoken of it in doubletalk, has tried to pretend none existed. The British have signed a 20-year Treaty of Alliance with Russia...
Leaving the same trail of dead Nazis and sabot age which has been the subject of pictures since. Hitler invaded Austria, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, and company tear and blast their way across Germany to the Dutch frontier with blood, sweat, and doubletalk. They are captured innumerable times by the Gestapo, but since, as everybody knows, the Germans don't eat Wheaties, the picture ends with their inevitable escape to England in a captured bomber...
...doubletalk, one fact was clear: the President wanted tall, toothy, honest, earnest Senator Mead. The President's choice was based on the practical belief that Jim Mead was the only Democrat who could get American Labor Party support, needed to beat Tom Dewey. Jim Mead, with four secure years in the Senate ahead of him, and with at least 50 friends among the 51 bosses committed to Bennett, was cagey. He craftily named his own candidate: Jim Farley...
With rant, doubletalk and repetitious exaggeration, Mostel achieves a weirdly intelligent satire. His first efforts for Basin Street pleased the studio audience more than they did radio listeners, but Mostel, new to the microphone, last week reduced his dependence on pantomime. Some of his established impersonations: an isolationist Senator ("What the hell was Hawaii doing in the Pacific?"); Charles Boyer cooing to Hedy Lamarr ; Hitler explaining his withdrawal from Russia...