Word: weasels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an air of "we'll see about this," McCarthy asked Secretary of State John Foster Dulles for an appointment. Dulles invited McCarthy over to lunch. For 75 minutes, Lawyer-Diplomat Dulles and Lawyer-Senator McCarthy ate and talked. Then they issued a weasel-worded joint communiqu...
...explorers from Peabody made their way over the tundra in the most "modern" of vehicles--the Weasel, an amphibious auto with tracks, ribs, and pontoons to keep it above water and to prevent it from sinking into the tundra. The group worked in continual daylight from July 1 to September 1, when the sun is constantly above the horizon...
Leming was one of the rescuers standing by at Hunstanton, Norfolk, when the seawall broke, isolating 35 bungalows. An Air Force Weasel set out to rescue the cottagers and was swamped. A motor-launch crew tried three times to breast the gale and was blown back. Without a word to anyone, Reis Leming, clad in a rubber "exposure suit," waded into the icy waters, pushing a rubber raft ahead of him. Often the water swirled above his head, but "I just hung on until I could get a foothold again," he said...
Then Murray began to weasel, according to Hall. "Murray was shocked when he got his permission--he really only wanted to fight." And the facts appear to substantiate Hall in this statement...
Both men are expert practitioners of the "throwaway," a device for slurring or racing over the unimportant words in a commercial. This technique was brought to its finest flower by Announcer Ralph Edwards. Explains Stark: "Every sponsor has to put some weasel words in his copy that you've got to learn how to handle. Suppose an announcer has to say: 'If you use Blank face cream you can hope for a more beautiful complexion.' You've got to get that word 'hope' in to keep the lawyers happy, but as much...