Word: sloganeered
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...socially acceptable). No longer did young German tourists in France or Holland have to pretend that they were Swedes, and no longer did the governments of Eastern Europe blame all their problems on the "revanchist West Germans." During the 1972 national election, which he won handily, Brandt chose a slogan that would have been unthinkable only a few years earlier: GERMANS! YOU CAN BE PROUD OF YOUR COUNTRY...
...task fazes Sawhill, he scarcely shows it. One of his top priorities will be the daunting job of putting some content into "Project Independence," a slogan for an as yet unformed program to give the U.S. some degree of energy self-sufficiency by 1980. Immediately after being named FEO chief, he pledged to have a final blueprint for the project on President Nixon's desk by Nov. 1. He readily admits that morale among the FEO's more than 2,000 employees plunged when the Arab oil embargo was lifted in March and the agency lost the crisis...
This August a series of conferences will begin at Taizé and later move on to other countries. The meetings, to be called the Council of Youth, will explore ways that the young can help offset the injustices of the world so that, as a council slogan puts it, man will "no longer be victim to man." Brother Roger does not want the council to become a bureaucratized movement. There will be, he says, "no successions of votes, amendments, commissions, representations. It will be like an ever-widening river ... it will be what we shall have become...
...sense of cultural pride as, in the words of Scots Folklorist Hamish Henderson, "a civilization claws itself back to life." The blue and white Scottish flag is increasingly flown. The Drybrough brewery prints the flag on its export cans, while the brewer of Tennent's lager pushes the slogan: "It's good ... It's satisfying ... It's Scottish." Scots revel in the fact that the country's soccer team qualified for the World Cup final this year while England...
...with an armload of beer rushed out again to a waiting car. Two students staged a relay across a bridge in Portland, Me. At Princeton University, Charles Bell, a candidate for vice president of the class of'76, demonstrated his political flexibility by taking up streaking. His campaign slogan: VOTE THE STREAKER- IF ELECTED, HE WILL RUN. At the University of Georgia and the University of Illinois, students carried streaking to new heights by jumping from planes wearing only parachutes...