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...Alexander Haig for his Piltdown treatment of the English language. To those of us who share the general's khaki complexion, Haigledygook is the creative flowering of basic Army jargon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 6, 1981 | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...context these phrases make no sense; in context they make even less sense. Maybe, just maybe, the Haigledygook is deliberate. As the Secretary said at his press conference when asked to clarify a statement: "That was consciously ambiguous in the sense that any terrorist government or terrorist movement that is contemplating such actions I think knows clearly what we are speaking of." Well, perhaps they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haigledygook and Secretaryspeak | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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