Word: weaseled
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...HAMLET?Methinks it is like a weasel...
...backed like a weasel...
...think over his statement, he last week told newsgatherers that he had made it as an individual, not as party spokesman. He said also that his mind was open to modification recommendations from the Wickersham Commission. But he did not retract his theory that the party must not weasel on Prohibition, that it must...
...widespread was the impression that Nominee Gore had turned Wet that on Sept. 21 the Anti-Saloon League felt it necessary to publish a Dryish letter from him. In this letter he used the following weasel-words: "Should time and experience demonstrate the necessity for a change in the law, such change ought to be made by the friends of temperance rather than its enemies...
...guts" of Prohibition is one place to which potent Dry Senators and Congressmen do not want to see the Commission go. But Commissioner Mackintosh, a Dry himself, did not propose to allow his colleagues to weasel on "enforcement" and pass up the larger issue of the enforceability of the 18th Amendment. Drys last week cried out in sharp protest against any such thoroughgoing program of investigation as he advocated...