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Monday, November 20, 2006

Lexicon of Politics

Globaloney n. [global + baloney] (an unrealistic) foreign policy or global outlook.

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2002 Newsweek (Dec. 16) 43:
Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce apparently coined the term "globaloney" in 1943 to trash what Vice President Henry Wallace liked to call his "global thinking," particularly a plan to promote peace by building airports all over the planet.