Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Police controls, strident propaganda and a rash of rumors-of plots, arrests, command quarrels-betrayed the spreading uncertainty in Cairo. But all of Nasser's overpowering propaganda could not camouflage some of the facts: the Israelis were still occupying part of Sinai and all of Gaza, and refusing to pull out of their positions at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba until the Egyptians guaranteed them free access to the Red Sea. The new U.S. Middle East policy, with its implied threat to isolate Nasser if he refuses to play the game with the Western side...
...Germany Off Limits is already a bestseller. The crass coating of sex and corn on this propaganda pill, plus the easygoing American tendency to let bygones be bygones, may make the book almost as successful in the U.S., although it is rubbish. Off Limits mounts hundreds of unrelated, postage-stamp vignettes of the occupation years 1945 to 1951 side by side. Amid the meandering plots and subplots, readers will meet the following unattractive Americans: an intelligence major who forms a sado-masochistic liaison with the Ile Koch-like widow of a concentration-camp commandant, a Jewish captain who allows...
...commission's decision would have no adverse effect at all on the shipment of oil to Europe. The normal U.S. stock, they pointed out, is around 265 million bbls., while current stocks amount to 273.7 million bbls. The talk of a shortage, they charged, was nothing but propaganda concocted out of the foreign crisis by the big producers and shippers to keep domestic prices down...
...planes circling overhead and ten destroyers guarding their flanks, they sailed slowly north out of the wreck-cluttered harbor and faded into the wintry Mediterranean dusk. The troops themselves were glad to go: it had not been pleasant duty on their sector, crowded in by Egyptians stirred by inflammatory propaganda in Nasser's newspapers...
...anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, along with Britain, after Britain invaded Egypt. Nuri declared public sympathy for Egypt, and sought to prove his devotion to the Arab cause by outdoing everyone else in crying that Israel must be wiped out. All the while, Egyptian, Syrian and Moscow radios launched fierce propaganda attacks against him, in similarity of phrasing that suggested collaboration. Last month bloody rioting erupted in Baghdad and An Najaf, and Radio Cairo shouted that "the traitor" was doomed...