Word: doubletalking
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...many-tongued press, which is the world's mouthpiece, does not always talk with the mild forthrightness of the New York Times,. Sometimes it talks doubletalk, sometimes out of the side of its mouth, sometimes it mumbles through a gag of censorship or of its own stupidity. Some of the strangled sounds emitted here & there last week...
...wide, flat valley dotted with greasewood, yucca and bunch grass selected as site for the test explosion is known in Manhattan Project doubletalk as "Trinity." Most of the land once belonged to a rancher named MacDonald, whose wrecked ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman...
...Victor Borge, Danish-born satirist, whose slow-drawled doubletalk went over fast in U.S. nightclubs, and sounded just slow...
...make out her office is called for short Comcincsnafbabu. ... All in all, she finds the Navy pretty rugged. When she quits, or we should say is returned to inactive duty, we're afraid she'll bring along a lot of that naval doubletalk. We really don't want any. An expert in naval jargon advises us that we should threaten, if she does, to take her down to the Potomac and give her the Deep...
Money Talks. Hardheaded, hard-fisted William L. Clayton made his first major pronouncement since he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of U.S. economic policy. With a refreshing scorn for diplomatic doubletalk, he told the Latin Americans not to kid themselves about that policy in the postwar world...