Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurriedly, the J. Arthur Rank organization booked 16-year-old Rock-'n'-Roller Terry Wayne in his place. Terry's launching slogan: "He's good! He's clean! He's wholesome...
...Latin. In Minneapolis, Municipal Judge Dana Nicholson proposed that Minnesota's lower courts be put on a circuit basis, offered the slogan "Gavelo donatus, circumire paratus" and provided his own translation: "Have gavel, will travel...
Detroit's fever spread fast. Car dealers in 245 U.S. cities were cranking up hardsell campaigns for April or May. Their slogan: "You Auto Buy Now." Many will stage horn-tooting parades through downtown areas, will serve free coffee to all comers in the showrooms, will trim some prices. (Ford cut prices $15 and $16 on some Fairlane models to bring them in line with Chevrolet prices...
...When I said we had been much impressed by the earnestness with which people talked of "overtaking and surpassing" U.S. production in 10 or 15 years, Khrushchev answered with a trace of irritation: "I don't know why some people in your country don't take this slogan seriously. Our rates and tempos of growth are three and four times those of your country. I don't know about the time, but the lines are bound to cross. We are all convinced that we will overtake you, and this is not a matter of theory...
...Purge. Little Wolfgang was lodged, with other foreign youngsters, in Children's Home No. 6, then briefly among Russians in a grim Dotheboys Hall called the Spartak Children's Home. At school, the teacher vanished after having made a slip of the tongue and garbled a current slogan of Stalin's to read thus: "[We] will make them think twice before they stick their Soviet snouts into our hogs' paradise...