Word: sloganize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most difficult and most important problem of Socialist economy [and yet] the massacre of incentives continues. The last bit of fun has been exiled from their drab lives in this country of Virtue and Gloom, with its mean vindictive Work or Want posters on every street corner; a slogan fit for a state orphanage or reformatory school, and which makes every self-respecting worker's stomach turn in disgust. . . . Two more years of this, and Labor will have irretrievably wasted its historic chance...
...knows his destiny, nor does any nation. The destiny that lay beyond Yorktown and Appomattox and Manila Bay, that lay mockingly behind a slogan ("Make the World Safe for Democracy") at Belleau Wood, took a new and decisive turn last year. It was in 1947 that the U.S. people, not quite realizing the full import of their act, perhaps not yet mature enough to accept all its responsibilities, took upon their shoulders the leadership of the world...
...member of '63, I object to the level upon which many candidates for our Smoker Committee are conducting their campaigns. By making sex their slogan, they are degrading what can be a clean and memorable evening of fun into an event which any of us would be ashamed to have our parents attend. Whether these candidates would be able to carry out their programs or not. I object to the low character which they are trying to give to our Freshman Smoker. These candidates are basing their programs not on now and original ideas with which to make the Smoker...
...Hayes. A big behind-the-scenes Republican, Butler was a close adviser of Teddy Roosevelt (who dubbed him "Nicholas Miraculous"). Later they quarreled, and Butler became William Howard Taft's running mate in 1912. In 1920 he made his own vain bid for the Republican nomination, with the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Picnic in November." But politicians could not overcome a suspicion that he was a stuffed shirt...
...placard bearing the last name of Richard A. Van Deuren, and the slogan; "It's All Over the Yard" was among the first to go on the pretext that the "V" and "D" were inordinately large...