Word: postered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nineteen candidates have been campaigning since Monday in a drive which is exceptional for its lack of color and noise. One man attempted to relieve the situation by hanging a poster carrying the picture of a nude, but authorities threw both nude and candidate out of the building...
...case of war or threat of war." Newspapers blossomed with daily threats of imminent bloodshed if the British did not pull out of the Suez Canal Zone and the Sudan. Egyptians began boycotting British goods; stores tacked up signs announcing that they would no longer carry them. A poster on Cairo walls promised death to anyone who bought British goods. Government officials angrily referred to Britain as "the enemy"-and lumped France and the U.S. with Britain...
...President Perón's continuing strange behavior. With less than two weeks till election day, he had not yet launched his campaign, made a speech or even stirred from the capital. Twice he postponed scheduled electioneering tours into Santa Fe and Cordoba provinces. Not a single poster was to be seen anywhere advertising his ticket...
Best know of the groups is probably the Carnival Department which plans the events that go with Dartmouth's annual winter week-end drunk. So far the committee has just begun the Carnival poster contest...
Climbing a flight of stairs and entering a barren room with dirty green walls, we found that things weren't so dead after all. A switchboard operator was busy directing the heavy traffic of telephone calls, and rough-looking men were pushing bales of "Curley, Courageous, Capable" posters from one back room to another. We asked one of the poster-pushers where we could find Curley's publicity director. After looking us over thoroughly, he pointed to a diminutive man in shirtsleeves and shouted "Callahan! These two guys want to see Smith." Callahan said Smith was on the telephone...