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Word: singletalk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people's mind was, as grass-root William Allen White's Emporia Gazette stated in plain singletalk, the question whether they can "believe the reports and statements of our leaders ... in this war." The people did not shout for General Patton's scalp. There were editorial shouts and much dinner-table clamor-and humorists in the Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patton and Truth | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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