Word: weasels
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...establishment of friendly relations. When the fine gets so high that the compensation machinery breaks down, tribal war follows. That was what happened two years ago when Jose Velasquez, one of the Epieyus (Blackbird) chiefs, got liquored up and gunned down Jose Aguilar, a chief of the Epinayu (Weasel) tribe...
...Disappearance indicates that if Author Wylie has not entirely forgiven his old whipping girl, "Mom," he has at least come around to the chivalrous belief that the weasel in her life is "Pop." It also indicates that Crusader Wylie takes his new thesis pretty seriously: men & women are already badly divided, and it may be later than the world thinks...
...Hill. But they are politicians. They are sometimes inclined to subvert controversial legislation by letting the "necessity" of pleasing their various constituencies interfere. They are sometimes inclined to let their party affiliation overly affect their thinking and their voting. Once in awhile, they weasel when the legislative waters get rough, as they did when they left determination of certain classifications up to local boards under the last...
...claims of Rhee's government. One afternoon in 1943 Rhee interrupted a croquet game with some friends to tune in a broadcast of the Cairo Conference communique. He listened quietly to the communique, in which a promise that "Korea shall become free" was marred, he felt, by the weasel words "in due course." Said Rhee to his host when the broadcast was over: "What a pity I have not been playing croquet with Cordell Hull...
...Americanism, ex-Marine McCarthy boldly announced that he was prepared to repeat his charges in public, as Lattimore had demanded, and dared anyone to sue him for libel. But what he produced was a far cry from his original talk of Communism and espionage; it was simply a weasel-worded statement that Owen Lattimore, Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup and the State Department's John Service sometimes agreed with policies that paralleled the Kremlin line...