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Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay was responsible for the joke. On an Alaskan inspection trip last summer, he found voters bitter about the Republican decision to press for Hawaiian but not for Alaskan statehood. Instead of mum bling weasel words, McKay publicly told statehood advocates that they were too belligerent in their approach to Congress and suggested that they "start acting like ladies and gentlemen." He resented charges that his department was trying to hold on to Alaska as an "empire." "I get sick and tired," he told an Anchorage audience, "of being kicked around...
...These weasel-minded people might better spend their time teaching their children tolerance and studying the American Constitution. It is time all intelligent people took a positive stand against such race discrimination...
...Give a weasel-word reply. 6. In the foreign relations field Ike had plenty of trouble in his own party over the Bricker Amendment, which had been designed to: 1. Extend the Monroe Doctrine to Asia...
Craig said that the Admissions office had no sympathy with a Princetonian editorial of last term which suggested that a screening committee weed out the applicants who would not benefit fully from a Princeton education. "It was very unfortunate publicity, of course," Craig said. "The Princetonian tried to weasel out of it by saying it was just one statement of current opinion run, because of lack of space, in the editorial column. It wasn't a very good weasel...
...that old egghead T. Jefferson had been possessed of her spirit, he would never have suggested to the frightened appeasers who adopted our Declaration of Independence that they include in it those weasel words: "With a decent regard for the opinions of mankind...