Word: doublespeak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wright's lawyer, William C. Oldaker, called that "doublespeak" and said "it's one of the most outra geous readings of legislative history" he has seen. Overall, the report contains "a lot of noise, a lot of clamoring, but very little substance," he said...
...goes deeper than that. In the torrent of doublespeak surrounding Harold Washington and Thomas Minter, it has been forgotten that these men are, quite simply, the best candidates for the offices they seek. Prejudiced whites in Chicago and New York, in their fearful haste to bar Blacks from positions of political authority, condemn residents of those cities to suffer under the uninspired, under-prepared men of mediocrity they throw in as buffers. The sooner demagogic purveyors of racial fears like Epton and Koch are made unwelcome, the sooner "merit" can truly improve the quality of leadership in America...
...That strategy came through clearly in Reagan's third State of the Union speech, delivered last Tuesday, as the president urged the government to "take the lead in restoring the economy," but simultaneously called for a spending freeze while continuing to protect defense spending buildups. And the same executive doublespeak strongly marked the president's new approach to student...
...doublespeak jargon of Poland's military bosses, it was called Operation Calm. The two-day police sweep, as described in the government press last week, netted 145,000 curfew violators and other petty miscreants. Out of that group, 99,000 were "warned," 29,000 "lectured" and 7,000 fined on the spot. Some 3,900 people were hauled into police stations...
...shooting her and dumping the body in a trash heap. Bellow drives home the point of a world out of control. But he undercuts the effect when Corde gives his own impressions of the event to the defending lawyer in a language that sounds a cross from Annie Hall doublespeak and pop psychologese...