Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before "the level of violence subsides," and declared that those troops would be fully evacuated within six months after the North Vietnamese had left. Once both sides agreed, said Nixon, the majority of "non-South Vietnamese forces"-a delicate locution that takes in the North Vietnamese without pointing the propagandist's finger at them-would be withdrawn from South Viet Nam over a twelve-month period. Thereafter, the remaining non-South Vietnamese forces would withdraw into enclaves, cease fighting and eventually quit the country entirely...
...nineteen, I will give it one more chance." This sort of portentous pronouncement must chafe at Kunen. He acknowledges himself that an accusation of status-groping within the movement "kind of hit home with this boy, because I've been angling for a position as Lord High Propagandist or something...
...Hack propagandist of the Soviet regime," "squalid pseudo-liberal," "defender of Soviet atrocities" were some of the epithets hurled at the poet by British intellectuals in the London press. The bill of indictment drawn up against Evtushenko included charges that he publicly denounced Andrei Sinyavsky, Yuli Daniel and other imprisoned writers during his trips abroad. The telegram he was reported to have sent Brezhnev and, Kosygin condemning the Czechoslovak invasion was dismissed by some as "mythical...
Sheed has already disclosed in a prologue what all this leads to. In later life, James Bannister becomes owner and resident propagandist of two right-wing radio stations in California. Aloof and "Eastern" in the West, he fervently eulogizes his conception of a departed America while railing against English decadence in an incurable English accent. But Sheed's tale is more than an ironic pathology of the right-wing mind, more, even, than a wry diagnosis of a severely fractured nationality. It also captures the comic anguish of a youth who begins to understand himself just at the moment...
...this way: Prime Minister Churchill had presided over a long string of military disasters. By August 1942, Singapore had fallen, Crete was gone, and the British were being hit hard everywhere. The nation desperately needed a great victory and a greater hero. With the sure hand of a master propagandist, says Thompson, Churchill removed the able but colorless General Claude Auchinleck as commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa and put the theatrical Monty in his place. Churchill's press officers set out to obliterate the fact that the Eighth Army had already won one battle...