Word: smokescreening
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...label adhered to the victim, not the driver. Before the 1949 season, the Yankees summoned Failure Stengel from the minors. At the time, the slipping team seemed to need a smokescreen of lunacy; no one took Casey seriously-but Casey...
Norman Lear suggests that "sex and violence are a smokescreen. There are interests in this country that don't care to have fun made about the problems existing in society." He has another problem too. He stood to make a bundle when All in the Family finally went off network TV and was sold for syndication to local stations. Now he may make a good deal less. The prime hour for syndicated shows is 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., when networks and their affiliates air news and local programs. That is the only time when independents feel they...
...museum away before sitting down at the tables. And it is a cinch that if the pro-complex forces can coalesce successfully, then the council will at least get its library, and Harvard its tax-free institute. And if the Kennedys can pull stints successfully behind a Harvard-council smokescreen--maybe we haven't yet seen the end of the museum in Harvard Square...
...clear picture from inside Richard Nixon's White House never quite emerges from the shadows. Now and then there are tantalizing glimpses of a man different from the one generally portrayed, but they are obscured by a manufactured smokescreen that rises from Nixon's doubts about what he does and says and his suspicions of even those who get close enough to watch...
...feel that President Nixon has abandoned all objectives except winning this cynical and perilous game. The rest is nothing but a smokescreen. Let Henry Kissinger handle foreign affairs. The President must be removed from office...