Word: gobbledygook
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...Gobbledygook for Hopeless. How does the world look to the Kremlin in this summer of 1950? Last week TIME correspondents in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Tokyo asked the question of the West's students of the Soviet mind. None of the experts really thought he could pinpoint the Kremlin's thoughts with any certainty, but there was a notable agreement on some main points of Russian thinking-past, present and future. A composite view of the West's experts...
Department considered Korea "strategically unrewarding"-which is Washington gobbledygook for "hopeless." This attitude was reported in the U.S. press and believed by the Kremlin...
...Born in South Carolina, educated at Columbia University, Keyserling went to Harvard Law School. From there he entered the murky Washington labyrinth by way of Henry Wallace's AAA. He helped frame the Wagner Act. He worked his way onward & upward through the Housing agencies. He mastered the gobbledygook of economic language and the fast footwork needed for intramural debate. He learned to jump out from behind corners, making Keynesian faces at businessmen. In 1946, with a boost from Harry Truman, he landed on the newly constituted...
More aggressively Irish than a swinging shillelagh, Top o' the Morning carries a top-heavy complement of assorted brogues, lively jigs and Gaelic gobbledygook. Arthur Shields, brother of Irishman Barry Fitzgerald, acted as technical adviser. The film's best feature: a handful of little-known traditional Irish airs-one of them a love tune sung by Ann Blyth. Its severest handicap: two typical jukebox tunes which Bing is required to sing a few too many times...
...Unfortunately, it also has more than its share of sentimentality and smugness, and not enough humor to keep it from sliding into a kind of fatuous self-congratulation. To many U.S. moviegoers, its class-conscious propaganda in favor of British traditions will sound, perhaps wrongly, like so much Martian gobbledygook...