Word: sloganeered
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...behind the Sanguinary Isles, while local folk singers recalled the prowess of Bonaparte in their atonal anthem, L'Ajaccienne. A calm enough scene-until early last summer, when the somber, somnolent island awoke to the 20th century. Suddenly, bombs exploded in the night, and walls proclaimed the scrawled slogan: "Corsica for the Corsicans!" By last week, the Corsican question had even entered France's presidential campaign. Rightist Candidate Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour stormed across the island, hoping to turn Corsican wrath against Charles de Gaulle...
...five per cent of the population. In order to perpetuate white rule, Smith believes, Rhodesia must be free from Britain. His answer to the question of when majority rule will come ("Not in my lifetime") has become the rallying cry for almost all of Rhodesia's whites. Using that slogan, Smith swept all 50 seats in the parliamentary election last...
...Eastman Kodak Co., casting about for an advertising slogan to sell its product, came up with "You press the button, we do the rest." The slogan worked and, with a little help from the corner druggist, cameras sold. George Eastman's success was a bitter pill for a 24-year-old photographer named Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz was not selling a competing product; he was coveting recognition for photography, in particular, his photography, as art.
Owen attributed the defeat of former Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker in his Smethwick constituency to prejudice and the effectiveness of the opposition's slogan, "If you want a nigger neighbor, vote Labour...
...streets instead, demanded nullification of the treaty, dissolution of the "one-party" Assembly, and general elections "to reflect the people's will." As the clashes increased daily in intensity, with 875 students jailed and 1,000 injured, an anti-American mood grew more apparent. A typical slogan was "Yankees Keep Silent," underscoring the student belief that Washington is behind Park's Japan policy; things were not helped by recent announcement of U.S. plans to increase procurement in Japan of military items needed in Viet Nam and readily available in Korea. "While Korean soldiers are to share their blood...