Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made no real effort to recruit the intellectuals. In that year, however, the Popular Front was formed. Party discipline was temporarily relaxed and three programs which appealed to the liberals of the time were emphasized; opposition to fascism, organization of labor unions, and support of the New Deal. The slogan was "Communism is 20th Century Americanism...
...offenders twice as big a proportion of motorists as they did in 1940. Many of the offenders were sentenced to a course in a driver improvement school. Los Angeles has put teeth in the principle that "the pedestrian has the right of way." In most of the U.S., this slogan merely encourages the walker without inhibiting the driver; in Los Angeles, motorists know that the courts will almost always hold the motorist at fault...
...crisis, Congressmen, State Department officials, and military authorities have spent much of their time discussing the frightening alternative. The idea of atomic bombs falling on China's densely populated cities has alarmed neutralist-minded Asians everywhere, and many non-Asians as well. "Massive retaliation" may be an eye-catching slogan, but it is time that the Administration re-evaluated its applicability to the facts of possible war in Asia...
...propaganda success of Brazil's outlawed Communist Party was the slogan O Petróleo é Nosso (The Oil Is Ours). Under that Communist-devised battlecry, Brazilian nationalists have blocked any foreign participation in the development of the nation's oil. A product of the-oil-is-ours nationalism was Brazil's 1953 law, which set up an oil monopoly, Petrobrás, and forbade ownership of shares by foreigners-or even Brazilians married to foreigners...
When Bertie and Joe Patterson took over the "World's Greatest Newspaper," they set out to make the paper's slogan come true. They livened up the Trib with crusades against crime and political corruption, lured in more readers with some of the first serial comic strips (Moon Mullins, The Gumps, Little Orphan Annie) ever printed in a U.S. daily. They watched the paper's circulation and profits soar, bought vast Canadian pulp forests and a fleet of vessels that still supply the Trib with paper. But the cousins seldom saw eye to eye. Though he bitterly...