Word: weaseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yoman orchestra through it deftly. That called for five bows. Then he played the solo part of Ravel's Piano Concerto, conducting from the piano. Some of the more critical in the audience thought they had heard better performances, but if Bernstein had played Pop! Goes the Weasel, the audience would have loved him just as much...
...business had now learned better. Now, N.A.M. was trying to establish itself "as an organization . . . believing that industry and the country's welfare must move forward together." Henceforth, N.A.M. would try to solve the nation's legitimate economic problems with "no doubletalk, no weasel-wording, no ducking the tough ones...
Union. Meanwhile the deputies sent the bishops a weasel on the hottest question of the convention-unity with the Presbyterians. The weasel: another three-years' study of merger plans...
...offer of freedom. It was 8 o'clock in the evening of May 16. At that moment, in Room 63 of the circular Council House of New Delhi, the British rulers of India voluntarily went on record before their subjects and the world with a plan-not a weasel-worded promise nor a string-tied offer, but a concrete plan-for the government of an independent, unified India...
...port officials were on the alert last week against a possible mongoose invasion. The furry, weasel-like creatures are treasured pets of many U.S. soldiers stationed in Hawaii, where the commonest mammals are mongooses. Many a G.I. will probably try to smuggle his mongoose back to the mainland. If a few succeed, the effect on U.S. wild life and crops may be disastrous...