Word: weaselers
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...Assist" was an OPM weasel word which seemed to mean less than supervise and more than advise. What it actually meant, if anything, nobody knew...
...Insects Winning?", often with disquieting results. He even attacks the bloated reputation of Aristotle, though granting that Aristotle "of course, was frequently right, for it is almost impossible, under the laws of chance, to be wrong all the time. Thanks to him we know that the Weasel does not bring forth its young by the mouth, as held by Anaxagoras. He also denied that Hyenas change their sex every year. He was only guessing, but it sounds like a good guess. I don't know what to say of his theory that flatfooted people are treacherous. Some of them...
...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...