Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoax? Sir: That so-called Highlanders' rebellion [Oct. 2]-is it only the word of the Viet Cong? Or are we witnessing another "Buddhist"-type hoax in which the Viet Cong agents are agitating while the policymakers of the State Department are encouraging them in an attempt to exploit the situation as a pretext for taking advantage of their position as "allies" to install some kind of military or political bases more strongly in the highlands, in default of being able to do so in the lowlands? At any rate, it would be a hoax equivalent to the "Buddhist...
...That so-called Highlanders' rebellion [Oct. 2]-is it only the word of the Viet Cong? Or are we witnessing another "Buddhist"-type hoax in which the Viet Cong agents are agitating while the policymakers of the State Department are encouraging them in an attempt to exploit the situation as a pretext for taking advantage of their position as "allies" to install some kind of military or political bases more strongly in the highlands, in default of being able to do so in the lowlands? At any rate, it would be a hoax equivalent to the "Buddhist" hoax...
...indictment ball rolling. Only one of his appointees as Governor, Warren Giles, was ever indicted, and his name was forced upon Volpe by a balky Governor's Council. The ex-Governor contrasts this record with what he terms "Bellotti's shady dealings." In this way he hopes to exploit the widespread conviction among independent voters that Bellotti's defeat of Peabody represented a victory for the forces of corruption within the Democratic Party...
...final results indicate that there can indeed be too much of a good thing. Labor's microscopic margin of victory will undoubtedly handicap attempts to exploit their greatest asset, the promise of innovation. In fact, Labor faces a most unpleasant dilemma; if it tries to use radical techniques to improve industrial efficiency and solve pressing problems of housing, poverty, transportation, and education it will face the danger of losing a necessarily close vote of confidence. But if Labor decides instead to avoid risk and float with slack sails it may be pulled under by the problems left by the Tories...
...paradox ("We have nothing to fear but fear itself"), metaphor ("Just the kiss of the hops"), metonymy ("The full dinner pail"), parody (a Norwegian travel folder promises "a Fjord in Your Future"), and punning ("Every litter bit helps"). By using what semanticists call "affective" language, many slogans deliberately exploit chauvinism ("Made in Texas by Texans"), xenophobia ("Yankee go home"), insecurity ("Even your best friends won't tell you"), narcissism ("Next to myself I like B.V.D. best"), escapism ("I dreamed I barged down the Nile in my Maidenform...