Word: smokescreens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...point there were only about 20 Members of Parliament listening. When it came the Prime Minister's turn, the House was crowded and he easily prevailed-in public effect, if not in private reflection-by the strength of his oratory and sometimes by hiding behind the smokescreen of necessary military secrecy...