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Word: adver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...were the day-to-day, irritating small fry, Lords Haw-Haw and Hee-Haw, Lady Hee-Hee, Schmidt & Smith, Fritz & Fred. But not for long. With the invasion of the Low Countries a fact, the propagandists blared with renewed vigor. England's BBC continued its dry, unemotional, institutional adver-"ising of the Allied cause; Germany, trying hard to sell the righteousness of its aims to neutral listeners, found a man for American-language broadcasts, a pitchman-voiced commentator who called himself E. D. Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mr. Wisecrack | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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