Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authorities have at last found the Cypriot whose paintbrush adorned a wall with a slogan offensive to the Governor. Such scenes at police headquarters suggest a boys' game gone terribly wrong- the young, pink-faced British soldier looks almost as scared as the culprit he drags in, squirming and nauseated with fear. This criminal is a schoolboy of 14; the message he painted was "Harding come down from your helicopter." The punishment for the boy's crime: three months in prison...
...ever have in the past. The question is, what have we to say? My point is that we don't talk enough about problems, and [that our talk] is ineffectual. As a kind of compensation for this ineffectuality, there is often heard in educational quarters a new slogan -the importance of nonconformism...
...embattled and embittered Israelis, Eden's proposal was proof positive that the British Foreign Office would like to carve up their country into tidbits for the Arab states. The most overworked word in Israel last week was "Munich," and the most popular slogan "We have no Benes for Britain." Appearing in Parliament in khaki battle dress, Premier David Ben-Gurion rasped out against "dismemberment of Israel [and] a grant of reward to the "Arab aggressors of 1948 . . . Israel will not yield an inch." The defiant speech caught the spirit of the streets: the mood seemed to be that Israel...
...ballet school to head the Women for Magsaysay Movement two years ago. When Magsaysay appointed her to his Cabinet as Commissioner of Social Welfare, she converted her election workers into a volunteer social-workers corps. The daughter of Multimillionaire Vicente Madrigal, onetime Liberal Senator, she campaigned widely with the slogan "For the poor, vote Pacita for Senator...
...speeches, Henry C. Alexander, new board chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co. (see below), and a member of the Federal Advisory Council which counsels the Federal Reserve System, said: "Maybe we should be thinking in terms of somewhat less restraint. If I were writing the rule or coining the slogan for monetary policy, I would say: 'Easy does...