Word: doubletalk
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...Union claims the right to intervene in any Socialist country where the practice and purity of Soviet-style Communism is threatened. Popularly called "the Brezhnev Doctrine," after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the new Soviet policy poses a threat to the sovereignty of any Communist country. No matter what doubletalk Moscow ideologues may use to disguise it, the new policy is nothing less than a doctrine of Russian imperialism-and other Communists recognize it as such and deeply resent...
...dwelt on his refusal to debate. In Akron, he cut short his speech by ten minutes after well-organized demonstrators in the balcony reduced his rally to a shambles. The hecklers, mainly students, shouted "Debate! Debate! Why don't you debate?" Elsewhere, they toted signs condemning DOUBLETALK or demanding SPECIFICS, NOT GENERALITIES...
...Your remark about Humphrey's strategy ("he seems to play both sides of the fence or simply straddle it") [Aug. 30] aroused the Edward Lear in me: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey Is guilty of arrant mugwumpery: Now a dove, then hawk, With his fast doubletalk He cozens nonthinkers with trumpery...
...determination, discipline and the makings of a nationwide organization. In a dozen black ghettos, Panthers prowl in uniform: black jackets, black berets, tight black trousers. They proclaim their right to bear arms, and they have an affinity for violence. Committed to revolution, devoted to some hard-line Chinese Communist doubletalk, they are gathering notoriety as an American...
...sterling's role as an international currency backed by a gold reserve. The pound, said Couve, must again become "a national currency like other national currencies, not subject to the uncertainties that it has known for the past 50 years." Couve then attained a new pinnacle in diplomatic doubletalk by adding that British entry "will be possible only when it is effectively possible...