Word: doubletalker
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...strongest language the Administration has yet used in relation to any part of its world trade program. If the President means it, he may end the series of futile maneuvers during which the U.S. program has been thwarted again and again by a combination of internal opposition and foreign doubletalk...
...Walker, took off after that comedy staple, The $64,000 Question, with a skillfully built parody of a member of the studio audience determinedly prompting Contestant Walker all the way to the summit question. NBC's Sid Caesar showed hopeful flashes of his old form with a rousing, doubletalk version of Pagliacci. Neither Groucho Marx, flourishing his cigar and convivial sneer, nor Jimmy Durante, with his patented songs and spotlighted exit, saw any reason for changing the formulas that have kept them among the leaders for years...
...Soviet journalism, literature, ukases, encyclopedias, decrees and polemics, and toiled in the lead mines of the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin classics. The result is not a formal study, but a beginner's handbook of what might be called progressive pidgin, published in England under the honest title of Doubletalk...
Assigned to the armistice negotiations at Panmunjom, he turned diplomat. Said a fellow negotiator: "The orders came from Washington to ease up on some points. Burke didn't like that, but he'd go back in there day after day and doubletalk those people wonderfully. He'd come-back to his tent at night and rage about the Communists, but he never lost his temper or turned a hair when he was talking to them...
...heavily for nepotism and graft, but last week Minister Borlenghi tried to dispel such unpleasant talk. "I want to make it clear," he said, "that none of the charges have to do with the honesty of the governments intervened." The trouble, Borlenghi explained in phrases worthy of authoritarian doubletalk, was that the three provincial governments showed "a lack of interest in public service," and failed to seek "the cooperation and advice of people's organizations...