Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aerial Parades. As Jungk enters Omaha's Offutt Air Force Base, headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, he duly notes beside the gate the Latin motto, Mors Ab Alto-"Death from on high." In place of the real story of SAC's courage and foresight, he sifts out another kind of conclusion. "The heavens," he writes, "have become a vast parade ground on which a general gives his orders with the bark of a sergeant-major...
...Frederick Douglass Junior High . . . we asked an instructor why the corridors and classrooms were scrawled with numerous variations of a single obscene theme. The teacher winced, but replied wryly: 'Oh-ah-it's sort of a school motto here...
Wheat's Tigers decorated their campaign hats with pictures of tigers in action and appropriate motto, such as "Tiger Ready for the Kill," "Old Man Tiger," "Tiger on the Leap." In action they screamed and roared, and their specialty was creeping silent as cats undercover until they were on the enemy, then charging with wild leaps and wilder yells and long, sharp knives...
...Business. Western Europe's current economic problem is not supply, but demand. Surpluses are piling up. Western salesmen are scrambling for export markets, and, not finding them in the U.S., are looking to Moscow-and the 800 million potential customers penned behind the Iron Curtain. "Our 1954 motto," cooed the chairman of the Soviet Chamber of Commerce in a foreign broadcast last week, "is 'Welcome' . . . to foreign traders." The traders who march on Moscow find bureaucrats with whom they must do business hard and evasive bargainers. After three months' canvassing, the spokesman for twelve Lancashire textile...
...sees all, hears all; it exacts silence from its citizens and demands that they draw up reports about each other. Pierre's neighbors don't know him; the telephone company denies he has a telephone; and his wife's office, the National Institute of Applied Idiosyncrasy (motto: Watch Your Step), acts as if she doesn't exist. Before the City is through with him, Pierre also loses his job, pay, birth certificate and signature. But he manages to keep his sanity...