Word: smokescreening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Dining in the Colleges is scarcely better, perhaps inferior to the Houses. But Colleges, because of their size, manage to smokescreen gastronomic deficiencies with graciousness. The dining rooms are smaller and proportionately quieter. Students queue up for their stew and ice cream inside the separate College Kitchens and succeed in making the dining halls look like desirable men's clubs rather than cafeterias. In fact, in pre-war days when food was good and served on plates by waitresses, the resemblance of Colleges to good men' clubs was one of their chief attractions to undergraduates...
...friends of Communism spoke of peace. The friends-French, British, Canadian and U.S. emissaries of an organization calling itself the Permanent Committee of Partisans of Peace-were the first foreigners ever to appear before the Supreme Soviet. Their act was part of the current Russian peace offensive, a smokescreen designed to blind the West...
...million members of Communist youth groups in a demonstration into Western Berlin. German anti-Communists were sure that the Reds would try to take the opportunity to provoke violence, and if they could, to seize Western Berlin. Some Western observers thought that the Whitsuntide demonstration was only a smokescreen, that the Communists would actually try some sort of a coup before that...