Word: mongere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nacht: The whole Brezhnev posture is probably playing toward concerns of Americans and Europeans that there is a threat of nuclear war. He wants very much to posture his government on the correct side, the peaceful side, and Reagan as the war monger. I think he's done a quite effective job at that...
...worked, though The Moonies' escapades were inevitably transparent and usually laughable attempts to exhort students to take up right-wing anti-Soviet causes. On one memorable afternoon, a CARP member dressed as a Russian tank spent a good two hours chasing a mop-wigged colleague (identified as a peace-monger) around a lawn at the center of campus, in an elaborately choreographed ideological skit. On sunny days, CARPies would set up a card table with assorted Moon literature at a central campus transit point Nearby, an associate would lecture to passers by while scrawling compiles and incomprehensible theological diagrams...
Peppered by criticism in what he called "our sabotage press," Truman frequently read the newspapers and blew his cork. He lectured reporters on the sins of their profession, calling William Randolph Hearst "the No. 1 whore monger of our time" and Columnist Westbrook Pegler "the greatest character assassin in the United States." Other public figures earned his unposted scorn, including "Squirrel Head Nixon" and Senator Estes Kefauver, whom Truman called "Cow-fever." Explaining his decision to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command during the Korean War, he mentioned the "insubordination of God's right hand man." During...
Ramindar Singh, a Nieman fellow from the Indian Express of New Delhi, said in response to Lewis that some foreign nations perceive Reagan as a war-monger and overtly aggressive. He added, "Reagan and Haig send shivers up our spine with statements about intervening in Saudi Arabia...
Nostalgia is up, conveying everything from Early American to the 1950s. A card depicting a 40-year-old trolley car diner could be one of this year's bestsellers. The superbestseller, surpassing all other artists, remains Nostalgia-Monger Norman Rockwell. (A favorite is a horrified Junior watching Santa dropping his beard as he kisses Mom and thus reveals himself...