Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except the front-line areas, the worst nuisance and the most pregnant occasion for levity were intermittent bombings by the Jap. "Keep 'em falling" became the anti-aircraft gunner's slogan. Melville Jacoby. TIME correspondent on Corregidor, reported that the Jap was losing one out of every seven planes to fire from the ground...
Thomas J. Watson, president of I.B.M., took full-page advertisements in the press to proclaim: " 'I' represents only one person. 'We' may mean only two or a few persons. Our slogan now is WE-ALL. . . . President Roosevelt, our Commander in Chief, can be certain that WE-ALL are back...
...little letters of significant psychological impact stand between national unity and all the shouting and argument. Change two letters in our present national slogan and all of us together would know what we're fighting...
...full-blown bodies of naked women. Only three or four times has he sculpted a man; never an animal. When he did Leda and the Swan, he left the swan out and concentrated on Leda. His sculptures seldom tell a story, never illustrate any high-flown saw or slogan. But his placid, broad-hipped, female torsos, mountainously solid, yet so graceful that they seem about to move, have been the envy and despair of fellow sculptors all over the world...
...Chicago Tribune published an extra edition yesterday, emblazoning over its masthead the slogan, "Our Country--Right or Wrong." We do not agree with the Tribune. We believe in our country and in the right, and we believe that in the present war they are synonymous. In that belief we fight, and in that belief we will triumph...