Word: doubletalking
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...master of doubletalk and a master of sophistries . . . I speak as a man who, for the past 18 years, has made a living as a salesman. I always have managed to make a living. I made a living selling magazine subscriptions in the depth of the Depression. I've sold sidewalling and paint; I've sold newspaper space and radio time; I've sold housewives hospital insurance and I've sold businessmen businesses. In short, sir, I'm the salesman you claim is dead. Confidentially, I'm still alive-in spite of management...
...Herbert Morrison and ten others of Labor's top command grilled the pair, demanding clear-cut answers to Lyttelton's charges. Time & again, they put the direct question, "Are you Communists?", got only evasive replies. To a man. the Labor leaders were revolted by Burnham's doubletalk. "It's a tragedy." said one, "that such an opportunity should have been thrown away by such terrible men . . ." "Burnham is 20 times more astute than Jagan," said another. "His answers were so slick that sometimes you were almost caught by them...
...agree with everything Secretary Dulles says, but I am tired of diplomatic doubletalk. We do not have to be blunt and offensive, but it is time we were honest...
Having said all of this, Malenkov fell back on the familiar Soviet doubletalk about "certain American circles" who are "putting their stakes on war," and called NATO "the main threat to the cause of peace." He talked fondly of Iran, and wished to be "good neighborly" with Turkey; he was anticipating "normalization" of relations with Yugoslavia and Greece; he was anxious to supply bread, coal and business contracts to "the glorious Italian people"; he sympathized with Japanese attempts "to win back the independence of their country" from...
...most complete report of what happened came not from the usual "well-informed sources" but from the Reds' own Pravda of Pilsen, center of the giant Lenin (formerly Skoda) Works. It was written in Communist doubletalk, but remarkably candid for all that: "On June 1, some politically unaware workers let themselves be persuaded into believing that the currency reform was aimed at them, and that they would not be able to live on their new wages and would go hungry. They staged antistate demonstrations ... In the town hall rioters tore down pictures of Czech state leaders and hung...