Word: sloganize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slogan seemed to be catching on. It had traveled from mouth to mouth from the moment Candidate John Bricker, cracking at the P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman, used it fortnight ago. Delighted GOPsters played it to a fare-ye-well; perhaps they had hold of a really damaging weapon, a phrase that would turn out to be as telling as "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" proved to be in 1884, or "Turn the rascals...
...School of Demoralization." In the North, victorious soldiers returning from Washington's giant Victory Parade suspiciously repeated the slogan of the day: "The Only National Debt We Can Never Pay Is the Debt We Owe to the Victorious Union Soldiers." With bonuses and back pay the average private left the army with $250 in his pocket. But as the tumult and the shouting died, the old civilian mistrust of the soldier revived. Jobs were easy to find, but veterans often discovered that an ,army record was something to conceal rather than to display. "The veteran," wrote one newspaper...
Millions of women and older men were being taught the rudiments of guerrilla warfare: handling rifles, planting mines, hurling grenades, taking cover. The German press coined a new slogan: "We will fight before the Rhine, on the Rhine and, if we must, behind the Rhine." German businessmen, visiting Switzerland, said revolt at home was out of the question: Himmler had too firm a grip. Hitler could still command a substantial majority in a free election because the Germans saw no alternative. Home-front morale was higher than the Wehrmacht's. Only frightful chaos and Bolshevism could result...
...Everywhere on stone walls and cliffsides appears the four-syllable slogan coined by the government's able chief, Mao Tze-tung: "Move your own hands!" Meaning: "He who does not work shall not eat." A Border Region epithet is the term erh-lu-tze - loafer (literally, "she-donkey"). Communists say they once counted 70,000 loafers, that now there are only a few hundred. These diehards must wear a big white erh-lü-tze badge, are fair game for anyone's hoots and jeers. But this year an official thought up a subtler approach...
...monastery, was reopened three weeks ago. More recently the Council has granted Gregorian Armenians permission to open a seminary near Erivan, is now considering a request from Moslems in the Uzbek Republic who want to open a school for mullahs. Poliansky concedes that religious freedom would be an empty slogan if churches could not recruit clergy, declares there is "no objection" to any faith having religious schools for clergy...