Word: weaseled
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Clearly these weasel words mean that Conservatives will have to hush up "Safeguarding" as an issue, because "Stability" Baldwin, although personally approving it, fears that the British public is still traditionally made up largely of "free traders...
Under these circumstances the League Council had to weasel, did. Presiding Finn Hjalmar Procopé refused to allow Costa Rica's question to come up for consideration in open Council, but easily obtained the endorsements of his colleagues for a confidential note to Costa Rica which he personally concocted. This epistle, while neither defining nor interpreting the Monroe Doctrine, felicitated Costa Rica in glowing terms, and suavely referred her to the U. S. State Department for further information...
President glared at Assassin as might lion at weasel. How to make the pale but unflinching weasel squeak...
About five years ago the weasel-eyed gamblers who interest themselves in boxing, baseball, racing, first turned attention to golf. Last week in the lobbies of the Chicago hotels where the players were staying, and out at the Olympia Fields course the bookmakers were giving odds: Bobby Jones 3 to i to win the National Open championship for the third time; Walter Hagen, 5 to 1; John Farrell, 8 to 1; last year's champion Tommy Armour, 8 to 1; Archie Compston, 10 to 1. All the other players, except Sarazen, were at long odds, for no single golfer...
...matter how unequivocal this statement may appear, it is actually a statesman's weasel, as appears from the Baron's next sentence: "The proposal of the United States is understood to contain nothing that would refuse to independent states the right of self-defense...