The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet) . . . .

[…] and the brassy-bossy men-women, with corrugated-iron perms, and hippo hides, who come, self-announced, as “ordinary British housewives”, to talk to rich minked chunks of American matronhood about the iniquity of the Health Services, […]

Powerful people don't dexify (defend, explain, or justify).

He even forgets about the great sum he loses, but perpetually irritates himself with his own suckerish imagination.