Word: smokescreening
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...Smokescreen...
...Morrell said that "if the smokescreen about aiding both sides doesn't pan out, we'll still go ahead and aid South Vietnam. That could easily happen, since there's no way Hanoi or the NLF could accept American aid while we're occupying their country...
...opening chapters in New York, Las Vegas and Miami. Most joined the league for its efforts to curb ethnic slurs and stereotypes, and would be appalled at any use of it by the underworld. But the league, inadvertently or not, has benefited the Mafia-serving as a public relations smokescreen for mob activities. Colombo's leadership of the league has made him the most outspoken reputed Mafia leader in the history of organized crime as well as a straight-faced anti-defamation champion to many New Yorkers of Italian extraction...
...fakes being a poet, the overcomplicator fakes being a scientist. Perhaps it is unfair to pick on economists rather than anybody else-except that they are, after all, talking about money. And as often as not it turns out to be our money. Here is a master clarifier-by-smokescreen discussing the recruiting possibilities of a volunteer army if wages, military (Wm) are nudged seductively in the direction of wages, civilian (We): "However, when one considers that a military aversion factor must be added to We or subtracted from Wm, assuming average aversion is positive, and that only a portion...
...with Gov. Volpe's imaginary "nation-wide conspiracy." The sit-in was the result of the breakdown of the welfare system, not its cause. Volpe's demagogic charges of conspiracy, like the conspiracy charges which have been brought against the welfare mothers in court, are no more than a smokescreen to protect the government at the expense of the citizens it was elected to serve. There was no conspiracy involved in last week's sit-in, and the defendants should be acquitted...