Word: sloganeered
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...years ago Dery was released, when Kadar tried to win the support of the apathetic population by slightly relaxing his dictatorship. Today, under Kadar's slogan "He who is not against us is with us," non-Communist technicians have been given important industrial posts, attacks against the church have slackened, Western newspapers can be bought in Budapest hotel lobbies. But unlike most other Hungarian intellectuals, who tentatively raised soft voices of comment within the limits set down by the regime, Dery cloaked his reaction to the changing times in silence. He published nothing, was inaccessible to visiting Westerners, even...
...After some kicking and screaming, eleven of the 23 sheikdoms joined up. Next, the British moved to merge Aden Colony with the protectorate to offset the independence agitation. Chief agitator: the city's Trades Union Congress, led by a bumptious, Redlining young airline clerk named Abdullah Asnag, whose slogan runs, "One People, One Yemen, God Is Great...
...after the Giants had clinched the pennant, they faced a young Dodger lefty named Karl Spooner. He fanned 15, and before fading into obscurity the next spring, he excited a winter slogan in Flatbush: "Now we got Spooner sooner...
...rugged good looks. He was able and eager to dance an Irish jig when the occasion demanded. He spoke of the issues in stern, confident tones. He campaigned unabashedly on the claim that his influence would be felt in Washington on his brother's New Frontier. His slogan: "He can do more for Massachusetts...
Despite the show of democracy, the voters were apathetic, sickened by war and the clawing fights among their own leaders. By last week, the only slogan capable of rallying the Algerian people was the cry of Baraket (Enough). Ahmed Ben Bella, at least temporarily in control as head of Algeria's Political Bureau, gave the voters no alternative to a single list of 196 candidates. The list had been purged of 59 names, including such Ben Bella opponents as ex-Premier Benyoussef Ben-khedda, Guerrilla Heroine Djamila Bou-hired, who had been tortured by French paratroops, and Mustapha Lacheraf...