Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week ended, the room left for maneuver and compromise had almost vanished. Now, even if Mossadeq wanted to, and he didn't, he dared not back down. Nationalization was still a highly popular slogan in Iran. The Communists-inspired Tudeh Party had easily whipped up 10,000 demonstrators in Teheran to shout "Death to Truman" and "Death to [U.S. Ambassador Henry] Grady." At the first sign of government weakness, the extremists would try to take over. But if the government didn't back down, its essential oil revenues would dry up and chaos would take over...
...campaign was quietly launched last year as a simple patriotic movement applying to all churches, with the slogan, "Self-rule, self-support and self-propagation." Protestants had no reason to protest the formula itself, since their China missions had largely operated as theoretical steppingstones to the establishment of independent, self-supporting churches. The Catholics, with their ties to Rome, were more suspicious...
Griswold wrote a theme song-"Some Insolvent Evening." He took a slogan from a mayonnaise jar-"Keep cool but do not freeze." Gradually, his life began to settle itself into a pattern...
...door fell flat. In the store, jammed tight with frantic bargain-hunters, Toastmasters were slashed from $23 to $14.72; Sunbeam Mixmasters were cut from $46.50 to $26.59, and hundreds of other items were cut from 6% to 40%. Down the street, Macy's big rival posted its famed slogan: "Nobody but nobody undersells Gimbels," matched Macy's cuts. Across the East River, in Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, prices went down just as fast...
Time for Ernie (weekdays, 3:15 p.m., NBCTV) undertakes the strenuous job of parodying the antics of daytime TV. Wearing a pitch helmet and waving a cigar, Funnyman Ernie Kovacs does a take-off on a weather reporter, plugs a nonexistent beer called Lost (for the sake of the slogan: "Get Lost!"). More slapstick than satire, the show, unsponsored for obvious reasons, winds up sounding dangerously close to the real thing...