Word: smokescreening
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...Devil's Smokescreen. "Dancing in itself is no sin. If dancing were a sin, every bishop in every see in the world would forbid it ... But the prohibition of dancing can cause those very sins we try to avoid." The cardinal, who has forbidden all dancing in his diocese, even in private homes, frowned...
...rarely do anything to restore what they have taken . . . Without belittling the dangers deriving fromlust, we should watch out even more for the dangers of breaking the Seventh and Eighth Commandments. I fear it is a trick of the Devil to call attention to minor scandals and throw a smokescreen over sins that are much worse...
...this was a cheap psychological smokescreen. The U.S. and the U.N. have at long last awakened to the fact that the military struggle and the struggle under the truce tents are two interlocking phases of the same battle, and have got on the strategically right track...
...throwing up its smokescreen of Red charges and smears about our own and allied governments, "The Freeman" hinders the fight against Communism rather than aiding it. By twisting the meanings of commonly accepted words, the magazine distorts them until they come to mean almost nothing. But worse than the smears or distortions is the fact that there are enough people in this country to support such a magazine...
Dining in the Colleges is scarcely better, perhaps inferior to the Houses. But Colleges, because of their size, manage to smokescreen gastronomic deficiencies with graciousness. The dining rooms are smaller and proportionately quieter. Students queue up for their stew and ice cream inside the separate College Kitchens and succeed in making the dining halls look like desirable men's clubs rather than cafeterias. In fact, in pre-war days when food was good and served on plates by waitresses, the resemblance of Colleges to good men' clubs was one of their chief attractions to undergraduates...