Word: doubletalking
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...Unconquered, there were less than ten more U.S. pictures awaiting release in Britain. "From here in," said one exhibitor, "it's getting a bit sticky." So far, British exhibitors had been able to fill their bills with reissues and vaudeville acts (Danny Kaye was the doubletalk of London), but reissues were already drawing catcalls from the customers, and few British movie palaces are equipped for vaudeville...
...airmen like to doubletalk it: "absolute terrain proximity indicators...
When Arthur Lane stepped into the plane that, in July 1945, was to take him to his post as U.S. Ambassador to Poland, few Americans yet realized that Lane's mission was doomed to the futilities of diplomatic protests. But no Big-Three doubletalk, no top-level deals, not even thick applications of F.D.R.'s charm on Stalin, could alter the inescapable fact: the Russians were...
...murder"? Then why the soft word, the wiggle word, the euphemism? "Murder" is clear in meaning, one syllable and three letters more concise than this clumsy circumlocution which with ... a score or more of other obscure terms have oozed up from the quagmires of European political intrigue and diplomatic doubletalk...
Governor Tom Dewey enjoyed a cautious bout of political doubletalk with a traveling foreign diplomat. Discussing France's Charles de Gaulle, the diplomat declared himself strongly against any general as chief of state. Grinning broadly, Candidate Dewey, with at least one other general in mind, nodded enthusiastic agreement...