Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese Slogan...
Living Example. Then the man whose campaign slogan had been unity bluntly declared: "The Republican Party is split wide open. It has been split wide open for years, but we have tried to gloss it over." He added: "I am a living example that that doesn't work." What Dewey had in mind seemed to be a purge...
...looked after party discipline. In one year, he executed 4,300 politically unreliable comrades. Meanwhile, conditions on Chingkan Shan were becoming uncomfortable. Food was scarce and the Red army was forced for months to live on squash. The soldiers adopted a slogan: "Down with capitalism and squash-eating!" Chiang Kaishek, by then China's dominant figure, sent his armies against the southern Soviet "republics" and all but finished them in a series of "extermination campaigns." Once, when Mao went to the front to assume personal command, he exclaimed: "Aiya, how daring these bullets are! Don't they know...
Mike was a man full of surprises. When he ran against oldtime G.O.P. Sheriff Martin Pratt last November (slogan: "A G.I. Who Believes in Democracy"), he said he was 30, had played football at the University of Michigan, and had served 6½ years in the Marines. After Mike won, a checkup showed that he was 27, that he never went to the University of Michigan, and that he served only 23 months in the Marines. "I didn't mean anything wrong." Mike explained. "It was just one of those things in a campaign. I just needed some real...
History Professor William Hesseltine files a minority report: "I was considerably happier over the generation of the '30s. These veterans have been harder workers-but except in technique, they're not as good. They don't have the quick, keen intellect or the inquiring disposition . . . The slogan of the '30s was 'Oh, yeah?' -a general, basic skepticism. This generation wants to believe something. It is looking for a quick and easy answer...