Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comrade Snowball off the farm. Then Napoleon took over the plan to build the mill. While the animals starved and slaved under the slogan, "I will work harder," the pigs moved into Jones's farmhouse, and the glorification of the Leader (as Comrade Napoleon was now called) became systematic. Hens were sometimes heard to say: "Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days." The Beasts of England song was no longer sung; the rage now was a rhyme called Comrade Napoleon...
...their best, the Army and Navy knew that the clamor could not be calmed. Some servicemen overseas were almost psychopathic in their anxiety to get home. Without themselves aboard, the departure of any ship for home seemed out of order. In the Pacific, their resentment found form in a slogan which was stamped on all U.S.-bound mail: "No Boats, No Votes...
Opposition Leader Winston Churchill last week gave the Tory party the slogan for which it had been fumbling: "The People v. the Socialists...
Allied arms had driven the Japanese from the "Co-Prosperity" version of empire. But ultimate Allied victory could not erase the memory of Japan's spectacular challenge to the West, nor the effect of the Jap propaganda slogan, "Asia for the Asiatics...
Labor used a telling argument at the hustings: a Labor Parliament needed Labor councils to carry out Labor policy. Then, in the words of its slogan, it could go "full steam ahead." When the votes had been counted in the 182 biggest metropolitan and provincial boroughs, Labor had brushed aside most of its opposition to win 2,977 seats (a gain of 1,245). Conservative strength slid from 1,595 seats to 835, Liberals from 245 to 111. Communists upped their standing from...