Word: sloganeered
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...were due to pass through them at night. Some villagers had also been told by the Communists to store up a 15-day supply of food. Captured enemy documents told of a "nationwide spring campaign" to be launched early this week, and one defector volunteered the campaign's slogan: "One day's effort will make up for 20 years of fighting." A contradictory document ordered Viet Cong cadres "not to start anything until June or July...
...visits. Out in the provinces, where Mao was trying to put civilians back into key party positions (following his dictum that "the gun must never be allowed to control the party"), Chou has compromised. The soldiers are under pressure to "modestly learn from the people," as one slogan puts it, but they have not been levered out of the party committees, where they still hold sway over the civilians...
...some doubters of that heady claim. Not now. Not after two of the town's favorite daughters, Anne Henning and Dianne Holum, skated off with gold medals in the 1972 Winter Games. Indeed, the local Chamber of Commerce has already begun to engrave its stationery with a new slogan: "Speed-Skating Capital of the World...
...Artists, another talent agency, which was luckily almost empty; most of the employees had not yet arrived for work. Within minutes, anonymous callers to the Associated Press and NBC claimed that the bombs had been set to protest "the deaths and imprisonment of Soviet Jews." They also shouted the slogan of the Jewish Defense League: "Never again...
...wisdom of Bratteli's observation was evident in counter-ceremonies staged last week in Ireland and Norway. In Dublin, all the ghosts of Irish nationalism are being dragged out by the anti-Marketeers ("Mansholt, the second Cromwell" reads one slogan, a reference to Sicco Mansholt, Dutch author of the Mansholt Plan to halve the number of Europe's agricultural workers by 1980). While the ceremonies were going on in Brussels, Dublin demonstrators read out a declaration of allegiance to the 1916 proclamation of the Irish Republic. In Oslo, anti-Marketeers staged a torchlight parade through the city...