Word: smokescreen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter recall election that resulted stepped the man who, by his inflammatory statements and suggestions, had set off Little Rock's integration explosion in the first place. In a pair of televised speeches. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus put prestige and passion squarely behind CROSS, dismissed STOP as "a smokescreen behind which the integrationists now move forward." Said Faubus: "When there is an attempt to force something bad or something thought to be bad upon the children of this state, I will resist such force with all my might, and it will pass only by trampling over my prostrate form...
...employs. On the other hand, Hoboken English is ugly, as perhaps the accent of the French slums is not. Certainly the former seems unworthy of the vivid vigor of Genet's purple passages: "Snowball's a well-built guy. If you like, he's a Green Eyes with a smokescreen. Green Eyes covered with mud. Green Eyes in the dark..." That's not the way they talk in Hoboken. Genet, however, has no commitment to consistency, and the contrast between the beauty of his lines and the squalor of the accents in which it is spoken might be exactly what...
...agree with Russell or not, it is a constant joy to be sure you know what he means by what he is saying. Even in reading Russell's most complex and difficult treatises, one never suspects him of trying to avoid an issue by throwing up a meaningless verbal smokescreen that will hide the obvious banality or falsehood of his views on certain points. This is the result of that slow, painful climb toward greater intellectual clarity which has been the life-work of Russell and his colleagues, Moore and Wittgenstein, and which some contemporary writing is doing so much...
...plea favoring PR, Councilor Joseph DeGuglielmo '29 claimed that the abolition group, headed by former Democratic State Chairman Charles H. McGlue, is not making "an honest attempt," but is trying to create a "smokescreen to hide the clear-cut School Committee issue...
This is not the first such report. In Hyderabad an investigating group complained of "a deep-rooted conspiracy to establish a Christian kingdom in India." In Indore a commission found missionary work "a smokescreen for the conversion of only poor and backward people," called for tougher regulation of missionaries' activities...