Word: propagandistic
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...nimble and tricky a performer on the teeter-totter board of Communist politics as the world has seen. He was unique in being allowed to live abroad most of the time between World Wars. Back in Russia during World War II, he was Stalin's chief propagandist and heaped praise on his boss. After the war, though a Jew himself, he aided Stalin's ferocious purge of Soviet Jews by ridiculing Jewish solidarity and calling Israel a "laughable dwarf caoitalist state." After Stalin's death, Ehrenburg led the fight for freer artistic expression, and his 1954 novel...
...quarter-century, French Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre has been the symbol of what is best (implacable honesty) and worst (rootless pessimism) about the modern European intellectual. He has been the pre-eminent philosopher of despair. Simultaneously, with his novels and plays he has cast himself as a propagandist on the barricades of social justice-in fact on both sides of the barricades, since despite a markedly Red-leaning political line, he has never joined the Communist Party and has periodically quarreled with it. Living his preachments in private as well as in politics, he has maintained with Simone de Beauvoir...
...former chairman of the American Cancer Society's executive committee, he gave up chain-smoking five years ago. This year he was appointed to the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke. Now he hopes to work for anti-cigarette causes "as a volunteer propagandist, behind the scenes," but plans to continue as a professional adman, even if he has to form his own agency...
...terms of actual military support to North Viet Nam, Peking provided only 15 to 20 obsolescent MIG-15 and MIG-17 jet fighters, which would prove no match for the supersonic F-102 Delta Daggers now in South Viet Nam. And even "Hanoi Hannah," the syrupy-voiced English-speaking propagandist of North Viet Nam Radio, was mild-toned. Speaking of U.S. Navy Pilot Everett Alvarez Jr. who was downed in the attack on Hongay, she dwelt on his youth, his wife and family, and his chances of meeting them again if Washington stops its "acts of aggression and provocation...
...brains and brawling turned his St. Louis local into a key link in Hoffa's chain, became a leader of the Teamsters' powerful Central States Conferences. He worked tirelessly to smooth over the trail of disputes Hoffa left behind him, served as Hoffa's top propagandist, eventually was named Hoffa's executive assistant in Washington...