Word: eyewash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't until after I had read this that I realized how bad my eyesight had become. I promptly went to see a doctor who found I had perfect vision but recommended a pink boric acid eyewash morning and night. He also gave me some medicine for my liver, which had become enlarged and inflamed due to too much riding over Donbas roads...
Some of the things Stalin said were pure eyewash-such as his claim that foreign Communist Parties are not controlled by Moscow, and that certain "military-political agents" (ostensibly in the U.S.) are stirring up war rumors in order to delay demobilization (actually, the U.S. is disarming at a far more rapid rate than Russia). Some were self-contradictory-such as his swaggering assertion that the atom bomb was merely a weapon to "intimidate weak nerves," but that it nevertheless constituted a threat to world peace.† Other things, such as his assertion that Russia was not planning...
News is the G.I.s' favorite radio item-and they get plenty of it. There are no commentators, experts, keyholers, just the cold facts. The Germans, for instance, do not "counterattack," they "advance." Says Baruch: "You can't eyewash the boys or smooth anything over; they're too close...
...course, a free press cannot be decreed by a peace treaty. . . . But to have the principle of a free press consecrated in the peace treaty is going to [help]. . . . One can be cynical and argue that it is all eyewash because Stalin is no more going to permit a free press in Russia than he has in the past. That may be true, and then again...
...years maturity. But Mr. Morgenthau, breathing heavily, stuck to his old cheap-money theory, fighting the war boom as he had fought the depression. His program "to finance this war in the seven-to-ten-year range at 2%" was denounced as "stubborn amateurishness." His reason (labeled as "eyewash"): "to save this and future generations many millions of dollars on the public debt...