Word: doubletalking
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...Talk & Doubletalk. In 1943, at a time when the Germans were still in Russia, Stalin was ready to talk with his wartime allies. "I think I can personally handle Stalin ..." confident Franklin Roosevelt had written to Winston Churchill. At Teheran, Roosevelt was persuaded by Stalin to take up residence in the Russian embassy. When Churchill raised the question of supervised elections in Poland, Stalin snapped: "You cannot do that. The Poles are an independent people and they would not want to have their election supervised by others." When Churchill mentioned the Vatican, Stalin asked: "How many divisions has the Pope...
Almost every business has its own specialized speech and the above paragraphs are written in the trade talk of the printing and publishing business, with a few words and phrases peculiar to TIME itself. I thought you (both subs and NS readers) might enjoy translating the apparent doubletalk. Here is a glossary of some of the everyday expressions used in TIME'S editorial circulation, advertising and production departments: Bioperse (n.) : Biographical and personality material...
...street had his say about the presidential campaign last week and left the situation at least as muddied as before. On Candid Camera, Allen Funt's TVersion of his Candid Microphone, Doubletalk Artist Dick Christman swapped opinions with representative members of the electorate. Samples...
...political supporter, made an alliance with the Socialists. Then the two groups signed up two minor pro-government parties in a "Democratic Front." Avowed purpose of the front: "To defend the Guatemalan Revolution and unify the [government] forces in the struggle against anti-Communism." That, translated out of political doubletalk, meant that Guatemala's Communists are still influencing the government and wielding power far out of proportion to their actual numbers...
...Girl in Every Port (RKO Radio] has Groucho Marx, but not much else, in its favor. Teamed with William Bendix, Groucho is a Navy veteran with a talent for swindling landlubbers. Starting with a race horse with bad legs, he launches a series of doubletalk deals that get him involved with gangsters, saboteurs, ringers and Marie Wilson. The plot, which limps as badly as Groucho's horse, fortunately has room for a number of familiar set pieces: Groucho confounding his Navy commander, Groucho playing a Kentucky colonel, Groucho leering at Marie Wilson. Director Chester Erskine, who also wrote...