Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verbal brickbats customary when rival unions compete for control of an unorganized factory rarely disturbs the philosophical members of the National Labor Relations Board. The Board's traditional attitude has been that "exaggerations, inaccuracies, partial truths, name-calling and falsehoods, while not condoned, may be excused as legitimate propaganda...
Last week, concluding that the U.A W was guilty of "deliberate deception" and that even the most elastic definition of "legitimate propaganda" would not stretch enough to cover fake telegrams, the NLRB ordered a new election at North Haven...
Death of a Rival. Zhdanov's own son, Yuri, was chief of the scientific propaganda section. Malenkov, with Stalin's backing, forced Yuri to publish a cringing letter of apology for his "sharp and public criticism of Academician Lysenko." Three weeks later, Zhdanov Sr. died, presumably of a heart attack. In January the Kremlin shocked the world by asserting that Zhdanov had been murdered by a group of Soviet doctors, most of them Jews...
...propaganda line switched: the old Marxist slogans were dropped, the emphasis was on national patriotism. "Let the manly images of our great ancestors-Alexander Nevsky, Dimitri Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov, and Mikhail Kutuzov-inspire you!" exhorted Stalin. At this point the cruel, cumbersome five-year industrialization plans paid off. During the long winter of 1941-42, guns, tanks and planes came rolling out of the Ural factories, to be supplemented later by a stream of armaments from the U.S. and Britain. To a U.S. visitor who explained that strikes were holding up U.S. war production, Stalin snapped...
...such dangers will not be met by appropriate actions in the world of reality. They will rather be met by magic operations in the dream world, such as disapproval, moral condemnation, declarations of intention, resolutions, appeals to the opinion of mankind, branding of enemies as aggressors, outlawing of war, propaganda for world peace and world government...