Word: gobbledygook
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...attempts to indoctrinate his students with any propaganda is worth his salt, but the susceptibility of students has been exaggerated. The issues between the East and the West are much clearer than they were in the '30's. Few college students are gullible enough to fall for the Communist gobbledygook at this stage of the game...
...Error of the fatal flaw," my foot! And I fain would use it (the foot) to kick the gobbledygook-talking diplomats in their hindsight. Only Lattimoronic "experts" could have failed to foresee the calamity that was bound to result from letting the Mao mob become the rulers of China...
...York ($173 million), the Fords would skip specific scientific, medical and public-health projects. Instead, they would try to find new designs for human relationships which would match the assembly-line achievements of the machine age. One suggested field of endeavor, described in a prime sample of sociological gobbledygook: "The mitigation of tensions which now threaten world peace...
Such specialized patter will probably give no trouble at all to admirers of Comic-Strip Hero Buck Rogers and his legion of spaceship-flying, planet-exploring imitators. But to those who have never exposed themselves to the comic strips, the pseudo-scientific gobbledygook that spews forth from every page of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman may cause some confusion for a while...
...went to live. Until they were in their 30s, it was Leo who was the clever one. He knew about ideas and he knew about pictures, and he told Gertrude. Then, to Leo's astonishment, Gertrude began to turn into a genius. People began to take her inspired gobbledygook seriously, and she began to buy Picasso's new cubist paintings against her brother's advice...