Word: sloganeered
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...some Chicago men, the new ruling seemed nothing short of treason. Even before the council meeting, 1,300 students had signed a petition against any change, and some 300 paraded in front of the chancellor's house, bearing a banner with an old Hutchins slogan: "Too few have the courage of my convictions. R.M.H...
...people here and abroad. Rather than setting higher tariffs and new import quotas and pumping more aid into Europe, Congress should give Eisenhower's proposed Study Commission a chance to formulate a sensible tariff policy. It should extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements, following the International Business Machine slogan "THINK," rather than racing into costly, isolationist barriers to trade...
...meant that "Negro spokesmen" might gain a lot of prestige by making speeches and gathering personal followings, but did not really accomplish very much. Today's Negro leader concentrates on getting things done on specific issues. Emancipated to a large extent from the white professional liberals and their pet slogan, "education," he tries, for instance, to get a court ruling on segregation in Pullmans instead of trying to "educate" millions of individual Pullman passengers. Today's Negro leader does not want to be known as a firebrand; the compliment he prizes most is to be called "a good tactician...
Lost in the political wilderness since the death of its inspirer, Jan Smuts, the opposition United Party fought back with hot charges that Malan threatens democracy and mocks the rule of law. "Vote now," was their slogan, "so that you may vote again." United Party Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss, who was once Smuts's secretary, accused Malan's Nationalists of provoking racial strife, but labored hard to show that he could not be accused of undue sympathy for the Negro. "Of all races and colors," said he, "the black Africans have failed to contribute...
...hero of his book is a 1 ft. 4 in. lizard named Frut, a happy-go-lucky character with a decent respect for the customs of his native tableland. Frut says his prayers dutifully, bows to the wisdom of the Sages, and even intones the slogan, "All lizards are born equal"-though he knows that the tableland is a caste society where high-born tablelanders like himself treat the lowly creekers (creek-dwellers) as slaves and sluts...