Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders spent most of their time milling around the lobby, airing local problems (how to interest young people in Pennsylvania's mossback G.O.P. organization), inspecting campaign gimmicks (ladies' hose with "I Like Ike" lettered across the ankles) and considering, with notable lack of enthusiasm, a limp national slogan ("Ring the bells and tell the people"). Then, as the last event on the two-day agenda, they heard the President of the U.S. open his campaign for re-election and set forth the 1956 Republican line. Ike's speech, the very antithesis of give-'em-hell...
...Adlai Stevenson, attacking what he called the Republican slogan of "peace, prosperity and progress," tried a Truman-ism for size: "What peace? Our peace seems to consist of a balance of terror in the world." Stevenson was appalled by the world around him. "NATO has never been so weak ... We have no policy in the Middle East." He quoted Eisenhower as saying at the time of his second-term announcement that some of the presidential work "can now be done by my close associates as well as by myself." Said Adlai: "I could not help but think of that little...
...Democrats, to defend themselves against the reproach of softness on communism, will be tempted to take a "tough" line on foreign policy issues; and the Republicans, in an effort to pour substance into the "peace" half of their "Peace and Prosperity" slogan, will call piously for a patient bipartisanship...
Toasting Nehru as "the outstanding statesman of our epoch," Mikoyan said: "Certain aggressive circles have as their slogan, 'Let us arm,' but we say, 'Let us trade.' The steel mill we are building for you is an example of peaceful competition with the Western countries. Let our Indian friends be the judges...
...master stroke of plumbing: faucets in every room dispense chilled red or white wine. In Rome, bartenders will stir up a martini molto secco at the drop of a 500 lira note; half a dozen short order restaurants are pushing Southern fried chicken and barbecued spare ribs with the slogan: "When in Rome, do as Americans do." In Spain, Europe's last stronghold of the "matrimonial" double bed, hotelkeepers are finally switching to the twin beds preferred by U.S. tourists. In Germany, where the mattresses are divided into three parts, innkeepers are turning reluctantly to Beautyrests...