Word: leafleteer
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...comrades furtively read leaflets dropped by U.N. planes (though the penalty for having a leaflet was a bullet). Thus Wang learned who General Ridgway was. He had long understood that Truman was America's Mao, but he had never heard of MacArthur. When shown magazine pictures, he could name only Mao and Stalin...
Resistance to the regime inside Albania has been getting outside encouragement. Despite antiaircraft fire, strange planes have been flying over Albania dropping leaflets with the message: "Long live Albanian liberty. Do not lose faith. You will be freed soon." After each leaflet raid Shehu's police try to hold residents indoors until all leaflets have been picked up. Sponsor of the leaflets is the Free Albania Committee, whose headquarters is in New York City and which wants to bring back King Zog, now in exile in Egypt. Who supplies the aircraft is a Balkan mystery. Yugoslavia anxiously disclaims...
...little brochure put out by the society explains the procedure of weightlifting. The seven-page leaflet is the work of Milton H. Woolf, a part-time student at the University...
...deputy chief to Ike Eisenhower's P.W. branch in 1944, Jackson worked his staff around the clock in London's Inver-esk House on the touchiest campaign of the war: rousing the conquered peoples of Europe, by radio and leaflet, to active support for Dday. As D-day grew closer, they warned of bombings to come, urged the French into effective disobedience of German orders. Finally they sent the organized French underground after important specific targets like bridges and railroad switches...
...planes on China, and the other, "monarcho-fascist terrorism in Greece." With savage suavity, Jebb labeled these two items for what they were, Jebb called Malik's charge of U.S. aggression a document "beneath contempt, except for its only obvious use, namely, its distribution as a propaganda leaflet." Of Malik's resolution on Greece, Jebb said: "For the representative of a country which maintains millions of its own compatriots in slave labor camps ... to denounce other governments for alleged misdemeanors as regards political prisoners is just about as nauseating a spectacle as that of Satan rebuking...