Original sentence: " Thus, weasel words suck the meaning out of a statement while seeming to keep the idea intact, and are particularly associated with political pronouncements.The imagery of the term suggests that it implies the concept of a weasel as being sneaky and able to wiggle out of a tight spot.The weasel appears in Stewart Chaplin's short story Stained Glass Political Platform (1900), which was published in The Century Magazine : "Why, weasel words are words that suck the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks the egg and leaves the shell
Edited sentence: The imagery of the term suggests that it implies the concept of a weasel as being sneaky and able to wiggle out of a tight spot, yet The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language says that the term actually comes from the weasel's ability to suck the contents out of an egg without breaking the shell; thus, weasel words suck the meaning out of a statement while seeming to keep the idea intact