Word: sloganeered
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...dillydallying Diefenbaker government never actually presented in full to Parliament for debate. Though he promised not to run an anti-U.S. campaign, Diefenbaker found subtle ways to bring up U.S. meddling in Canadian affairs. In Winnipeg, Man., he appeared beneath a banner urging "Vote Canadian, Vote Conservative," a slogan thought up by a local Esso dealer and described by a Tory strategist "as the only way of being anti-American without letting your slip show...
While pro-Senghor demonstrators chanted, "A single hat on a single head," more than 1,000,000 Senegalese shuffled to the polls and handed Senghor a 99.5% oui on a new Senghor-tailored constitution. True to the slogan, the new charter scraps Senegal's two-man, President-Premier system in favor of a single, strong presidency for Senghor...
...Everything is rosy in Rosebud." insists the official slogan of Rosebud, Texas-and the town newspaper proclaims it in each weekly issue. But Rosebud is really rotting. Along the main street, a dozen business places have shut up shop; the owners of many others would gladly sell out if there were any buyers around. A longtime Rosebud resident, Mrs. Howard Linn, recently showed a trace of the old "everything is rosy" spirit. "We've got a brand-new rest home," she said. "We've got two good hospitals. We've got two good funeral homes...
...white sides of American life on a fifty-fifty basis." This, ruled Izvestia, was nothing short of "bourgeois objectivism." More than that, concluded Izvestia, Nekrasov by implication "applied his fifty-fifty rule to matters far more serious-a comparison of two worlds, two ideologies. And when we get a slogan justifying peaceful coexistence on the subject of ideology, fifty-fifty is a dangerous thing...
...called "company slogan" is elaborately whimsical: "If you're driving down the road, and you see a Fina station is on your side so you don't have to make a U-turn through traffic and there aren't six cars waiting and you need gas or something, please stop in." With the help of California's chirpy ad agency Weiner & Gossage, Petrofina spoofs competitors' seemingly endless additives by transporting its gas in pink tank trucks and giving away "Pink Air-the additive of the future." Petrofina reports a healthy rise in U.S. profits...