Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look at the results, could only wonder whether Dictator Tito's army, which won its World War II fame as a ragged band of partisans, was able to handle modern weapons and machines. A jape circulated through Western embassies in Belgrade had it that the slogan of the Yugoslav army was: "Give us the job, and we'll finish the tools...
...hard. Prankishly, he liked to take visitors on a tour of the city room, bang an editor over the head with an eight-foot plank, then rock with laughter when his guests found that the plank was made of feather-light balsa wood. On occasion, the Mirror used the slogan, "All the News You Want to Know and Which Nobody Else Will Tell You," and the paper's book column boasted: "There is no need to waste time on a boring book if you follow our selections...
...France, recently told the National Assembly that France needs more reforms today to save her than she did in 1789. The reforms are not forthcoming. The only improvements offered so far have been negative: cut the arms budget, reduce pensions. A more popular save-all is also a Communist slogan: "Get out of Indo-China." Strategically, this would be disastrous for the entire Western world. Financially, it would be like knocking the trunk off that 1931 car: the car might run a bit more easily, but its engine capacity would not be improved...
...told him to shout, "Pakistan zindabad, Sher-i-Kashmir' murdabad!" (Long live Pakistan! Death to the Lion of Kashmir!). But the young man refused. So the tribesmen crowned him with a jagged piece of tin, and put 14 shots through his body. He died crying Abdullah's slogan: "Victory to Hindu-Moslem unity...
...order of Railroad Tycoon David MacArd, this slogan hung in every office of Manhattan's towering MacArd Building. It was not only his recipe for riches, but the nearest he could get to a religious conviction. So when his adored wife died, Multimillionaire MacArd turned instinctively to his slogan and asked: What solution exists to the problem of death? And where shall I find...