Word: sloganeered
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...even greater vigor." Peggy Heckler's only previous political post has been her position since 1963 as the only woman-and the only Republican-on the eight-member state executive council, an elected body that has almost no powers beyond offering advice to the Governor. Heeding her campaign slogan ("Get a Heckler in Congress"), the voters gave her the nomination in the Tenth District...
...popular vote when he ran for Maryland's 1964 presidential nomination. Mahoney exploited white apprehensions stirred by black-power demonstrations in Baltimore last summer, capitalized as well on congressional resistance to the open-housing clause of the President's 1966 civil rights bill. His slogan: "Your Home Is Your Castle-Protect...
...military government of Premier Ky-who was out on the hustings with his wife-favored no candidates but devoted all its energies to beating the drums for a turnout. Up and down Viet Nam, provincial drama teams mixed dragon dances with information skits and election slogans spreading the word. Sample slogan: "Voting is an honor of a citizen in an independent country." On TV, announcers folded the ballot, and dropped it into a box. Caravans of sound trucks rolled through smaller towns, and Radio Viet Nam belted out songs with lyrics like, "If we want...
...Madison Avenue. The moderates show equal-if more restrained-disdain for the radicals, believe that the slogan "Black power!" is meaningless in substance and pernicious in impact. If Stokely Carmichael, 25, who first popularized the cry, were not heading S.N.C.C., said N.A.A.C.P. Chief Roy Wilkins on TV's Meet the Press, he "ought to be on Madison Avenue. He is a public relations man par excellence, and he abounds in the provocative phrase." Rather than submit to the philosophy of black power, many moderates, both white and Negro, have left-or been forced from-CORE and S.N.C.C...
Eager Red Guards pulled down old street signs. The avenue in front of the Soviet embassy was renamed Struggle Against Revisionism Street. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, scene of Communist mass rallies, became The East Is Red-a favorite Mao slogan. Legation Street, location of most foreign embassies in Peking, was changed to Anti-Imperialist Street. The Guards also ordered a change in the traffic lights: green now means stop and red means go because red is the color of the forward-moving revolution...