Word: weaseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours between the White House and the Capitol went portly Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, trying to find a means of silencing Senator Borah, whom he fears, by pleasing Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, who is determined but reasonable. At length Senator Watson evolved a masterful polysyllabic weasel...
...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...