Word: sloganeered
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Doing its bit to make servicemen in Korea security-conscious, the armed forces radio in Japan broadcast the first results of a new slogan contest. One of the shortest slogans, contributed by Major General Walter Weible of the Logistical Command: "Shut up." Another from Sergeant First Class Robert Newcomer: "The two best relatives what am-Anti-Rumor and Uncle...
...From that day on until I wrote my second book, Mary waved that 'Nobody likes a one-book author' slogan around like an old Excelsior banner. When I finished my second book she changed it to 'Nobody likes a two-book author.' Then three . . ." Betty's attempt to lay another golden Egg is sure to coax thousands of readers into the bookshops, only to learn that Betty is cackling over an empty nest...
...York. Manhattan used a TV puppeteer's design as a horrible example (see cut), adopted for a slogan in their anti-hoarding campaign, "Don't Be a Grabbit...
...Brazil's longtime, stern-fatherly dictator, little, pear-shaped Getulio Vargas sponsored social legislation for Brazil's workers. It was a good pitch, and it built up a large following who ecstatically called themselves "queremistas" (literally, "wanters"-a telescoped version of the slogan: "We want Getulio!"). The queremistas felt a personal relationship with their "papa of the poor...
...world champions was missing from the Yankee Stadium last week. A speakers' stand stretched across the infield, and huge posters plastered the stadium, bearing messages like Saarnaa Sanaa and Pregetha y gair. They all meant the same thing: "Preach the Word" (II Tim. 4:2). Beneath this slogan, spelled out in 77 tongues, some 77,000 hot, hungry and happy Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered together from 48 states and 68 nations...