Word: doubletalking
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...every turn, Spaak, 59-year-old former Socialist Premier of Belgium, met with suspicion, delay and doubletalk. "If the general public could sit in on these talks," declared one who had sat in, "they would be appalled at the haggling." "Barring war," declared Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza, Greek-Turkish relations "could hardly be worse...
Kingdom by the Sea. The novel's European narrator calls himself Humbert Humbert and the doubletalk name sets the note of self-mockery that runs-laughter questioning the validity even of despair-throughout the book. Humbert's ignominious, fatal obsession is for little girls in the 9-14 bracket-not ordinary little girls but a special kind he calls "nymphets." As Humbert explains it in a passage that is typical of his style: "You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins...
...came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra who hails from the New York borsch belt. At the poolside near Gambler Meyer Lansky's cabana, in the lobby and the casino. Allen & Co. and Guests Lou Costello and Edgar Bergen rehearsed in doubletalk ("Did you put the bird in the creen?") to keep their gags fresh for the bystanders who would later form their audience...
Personal Life. Businesslike and notably hardworking, he runs Morocco's affairs with a good executive's cool hand and hot impatience with doubletalk ("You say what you have to say in five minutes." explains one of his ministers. "He asks you a few questions-right to the point-and that's that"). Though he is a tireless administrator, he enjoys his time off: a dash into the country in a Cadillac or Mercedes or Rolls, an energetic game of boules (lawn bowling) with a few French servants and friends, a simple meal (French cuisine) followed...
Next day, and the day after that, Faubus resolved any doubts that might have lingered in his favor. "Doubletalk" was his word for the efforts of the President and the Southern governors to make peace. "I write my statements from this end of the line. They can write theirs from that end," he said. "I am standing...