Word: sloganeered
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...John Dewey's well-worn "learning by doing" slogan has come to mean little more than that "children move around more and read less." The modern educationalists have apparently forgotten that "if the child is to gain an understanding of the history of Western civilization, the 'doing' involved must include a great deal of reading, talking, listening, looking at pictures, and just plain thinking. Perhaps he can learn a little by building a mud replica of a medieval castle on a sand table, but it is very doubtful if the time is as profitably spent...
...look at the results, could only wonder whether Dictator Tito's army, which won its World War II fame as a ragged band of partisans, was able to handle modern weapons and machines. A jape circulated through Western embassies in Belgrade had it that the slogan of the Yugoslav army was: "Give us the job, and we'll finish the tools...
...often made during such test-marketing. Cheer was first put out as a white detergent. Then someone suggested that it be dyed blue and tried out. The blue not only sold much better (especially among women who used bluing in their wash), but it also supplied a catchy ad slogan: "It's new! It's blue! It's Blue Magic...
...hard. Prankishly, he liked to take visitors on a tour of the city room, bang an editor over the head with an eight-foot plank, then rock with laughter when his guests found that the plank was made of feather-light balsa wood. On occasion, the Mirror used the slogan, "All the News You Want to Know and Which Nobody Else Will Tell You," and the paper's book column boasted: "There is no need to waste time on a boring book if you follow our selections...
...told him to shout, "Pakistan zindabad, Sher-i-Kashmir' murdabad!" (Long live Pakistan! Death to the Lion of Kashmir!). But the young man refused. So the tribesmen crowned him with a jagged piece of tin, and put 14 shots through his body. He died crying Abdullah's slogan: "Victory to Hindu-Moslem unity...