Word: weaseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Council published the President's reply. Ex-Tycoon Taylor (U. S. Steel), said Mr. Roosevelt, "is in Rome as my special representative. This appointment does not constitute the inauguration of formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican." Both to the Federal Council and the Christian Century these seemed weasel words. Said the Council's executive committee: "The unwarranted interpretation of this appointment . . . has not been explicitly denied." Wrote Editor Morrison: "Mr. Roosevelt will only confirm the opinion now held widely throughout the country that he wishes the ambassadorship of Mr. Taylor to be regarded by Catholics...
...Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell University. A brilliant theorist in atomic physics, modest, demure Dr. Bethe probes straight to the core of an abstruse problem, then brings to bear on that core his remarkable mathematical equipment so that the answer comes leap ing out like a weasel out of a smoked hole. Educated at Kiel, Frankfort and Munich, Hans Bethe, whose mother is Jewish, was holding a post at Munich when the Nazis came in. He left Germany in 1933, taught and researched in England for a while, went to Cornell in 1935. Author of five major treatises...