Word: sloganeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things done . . . We kidded him because we others were a bunch of lazy guys sitting around on our duffs, and Stevenson was doing things . . . He took our kidding damn well, and in college you don't kid unless you like a guy . . . The Engineers have a slogan, 'Illegitimi Non Carborundum'* -Don't let the bastards wear you down-but in politics they do wear you down, as they wore down Steve's reluctance. I hope they don't wear him down any further." Despite his affection for Stevenson, he says: "Perhaps the time...
Monopoly. In Milwaukee,. Stripteaser Patricia McQuillan, whose bust, she says, is insured for $50,000 with Lloyd's of London, filed a $25,000 damage suit against a theater operator for "trademark infringement and unfair competition," charging he advertised other dancers under her slogan: "$50,000 Treasure Chest...
Lemelin came home on crutches, adopted the slogan "Bite the apple where it is still good," developed a technique of bicycling with one foot and changed his swimming style so he could swim three miles a day. In 1941 Lemelin got a job as office manager of his uncle's lumber mill. When he had saved $200, he went to a well-known Quebec surgeon, who suggested an operation for his leg. Meanwhile, Lemelin had been writing a novel, Au Pied de la Pente Douce (The Town Below), which he submitted to the provincial literary contest. The novel didn...
Wednesday. On the floor, it became apparent that there was no steam in the North-South fight. Reason: the issue that divided them was "white supremacy," and "white supremacy" is no longer a live slogan in the U.S. One of the Democratic Convention's most important achievements was to make this fact clear. Few delegates really wanted to force the South into a walkout. Said Virginia's Harry Byrd: "We'll just sit here, and maybe they'll have to throw...
...jeeps, and hurled stones at the troops and police, who replied with tear gas and gunfire. At least 20 persons, and perhaps many more, were killed. The Communists linked arms with members of the pro-fascist Pan-Iranian and Sumka parties and led the rioters in chanting a new slogan: "Down with the Traitor Shah." But by late afternoon the exhausted demonstrators began trickling back to their hovels...