Word: weaseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President shifts his tack, says he hopes "an entering wedge for the practice of complete freedom of religion [in Russia] is definitely on the way." President Luther Allan Weigle of the Federal Council of Churches attacks the weasel wording of the Soviet Government, says it "supports atheism as the accepted philosophy of the State." Monsignor Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, is closeted with the President for 45 minutes...
...other side of the table were Texas Corp.'s hinterland directors-principally John H. Lapham (of San Antonio, Tex., whose father was one of Texas Corp.'s founders), Chicago Banker Walter Joseph Cummings. Sensing the nervousness of the New York crowd, they were willing to weasel the whole matter. Perhaps the chairman could go to White Sulphur, or somewhere, for his health until the unlucky incident blew over? Completely out of sympathy with such fantasies was Texas Corp.'s No. 2 head-reticent, Yale-bred, Anglophile President William Starling Sullivant Rodgers, chief executive of the company...
...along without the rest of the world and we know it, but we fail to see that we cannot try to adapt ourselves to a changing world and still keep our own faith in those particulars which are important. We resent the term "Isolationist" as typical of the "weasel words" used by crooked politicians, for we are trying to be "Realists" as opposed to those whose thinking is based upon a possibly outmoded European setup. We are not Pros for anything except our own general scheme of Democracy, and we see no sense in those who apparently wish...
...abruptly when the gavel fell to mark its final adjournment. Weaknesses the Party showed - many a Republican politico fell into a panic when Republicans Knox and Stimson were appointed to the Roosevelt Cabinet (see p. 11); the Committee on Resolutions pondered for countless tormented hours over how to weasel a foreign-policy plank - and such weaknesses could not be dissolved by the magic of nominating speeches...
James Truslow Adams' handling of modern Britain is considerably less critical, less comfortable than his treatment of the 19th Century. Toward the end many readers may suspect that his attitude toward interwar British foreign policy is that the less said the better; he performs a complete weasel on the relations between Britain and Continental powers in the 1930s...