Word: weaseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recall what Browder and Darcy said," hedged Joseph Stalin. "Maybe they said something of that nature-but the Soviet people did not found the American Communist Party. The American Communist Party was created by Americans." By this weasel, Steel could be said to have won the match from Brass, but it was soon evident that, for all Censor Umansky's care, Publisher Howard had got deeply under Soviet skins...
Madagascar also produces the little fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), a very aggressive, weasel-like kind of civet, remarkable as the relict of another...
...this horrible situation. They would pass a law against all business men, set up a commission to enforce it, appoint a commissioner who would have sense enough to enforce it only against dishonest people who under fair and just laws could get corporation lawyers to weasel them out. The Securities Exchange Commission was founded; Mr. Kennedy was made Commissioner; he co-operated with, helped, encouraged honest business; at the same time, he had dishonest fly-by-nighters, sly corporation lawyers under his thumb...
...they have been received with the greatest calm by responsible Italian circles and by the masses of the people." (Actually Italians who anxiously snatched up newspapers last week were visibly perturbed by M. Laval's speech, most Italians having expected him to aid Il Duce with something more than weasel words...
Most of the locally prominent educators hastened to weasel out of their embarrassing position by claiming that they knew nothing of the affairs of the company, had trusted President Browning. That unhappy official stoutly joined Mr. Pfab in declaring SEC's outburst "an attempt to give us a black eye for no apparent reason...