Word: sloganeered
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...students we begin by changing our universities, to make the democracy and freedom that they preach realities within their own confines. Student power is more than just a slogan--it represents a serious effort to give new substance to that old Harvard phrase, "general education for a free society." To this end, I am trying to do my small part by running for a place on the Board of Overeeers, and I ask all who believe that students and faculty deserve a voice on Harvard's governing boards to sign the nominating certificates that are circulating today and tomorrow...
...laudably progressive. Even though Maryland's voters register 3 to 1 Democratic, Agnew was elected to the governorship in 1966 because, once again, the Democrats had been split by a bloody primary campaign. His opponent was Baltimore Contractor George P. Mahoney, a buffled-headed segregationist who campaigned on the slogan: "Your home is your castle?protect it." Agnew staked out a moderate position, emphasizing the need for fiscal responsibility and tax reform...
...moved to cut the umbilical. It was now "the end of an era?the beginning of a new day," he said. To ensure that nobody missed the point, he used the "new day" phrase half a dozen more times, and it would be no surprise if that became the slogan of his campaign. In a Humphrey Administration?if there is one?he told reporters, "I may turn to 'new dawn.' The dawn comes slowly, but it illuminates...
...Used Deals. Other phrases have also lain fallow for decades before being well turned again for a new generation of voters. F.D.R.'s "New Deal" was Prime Minister David Lloyd George's campaign slogan of 1919, and Robert La Follette used it in 1924. But both usages were antedated in writings by Carl Schurz in 1871 and Petroleum V. Nasby in 1866. Otherwise the phrase is probably as old as card games...
...American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...