Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viet Nam. In March 1949, the French gave Bao Dai's state "independence within the framework of the French Union." In April, Bao Dai landed in Indo-China. "I risk my skin," said he, justifiably, for he got but little support. "COMMUNISM No-COLONIALISM NEVER" was the current slogan, and Bao Dai was widely held to be a French puppet. In time, some 200,000 Vietnamese came to join Bao Dai's army. But many more Vietnamese stayed away; they chose wait-and-seeism instead...
...defense force-and when the National Guard is outraged, Congress is sure to hear about it. Guard leaders on such occasions can be counted on to identify themselves with the original Minute Men, point with pride to their organization's long history, and cinch their argument with a slogan, e.g., "There will always be a National Guard." This week the slogans were falling like raindrops...
...probed out into the great, windswept Northwest. Their objective as such was not economic but strategic, i.e., to get direct new communications with Russia. To this end. the Communists relentlessly dragooned hundreds of thousands of peasants from their homes to the railroad sites. Soviet experts gave them an Orwellian slogan: "Work comes first. Time comes first. If time is lost, all is lost...
...informant said that the Smith Ticket would go ahead with its campaign regardless of meetings. He said the Smith slogan would be "Vote Smith, numbers 1-3 on the ballot" and that posters for Smith would include wild Jubilee Weekend promises such as a night swimming party at a nearby beach...
...civil war would be canonized at once. Explained Ecclesia: "In the eyes of the church, martyrdom is obtained only when a life is given in defense of faith or Christian virtue." ¶ In Nashville, a group of leading executives organized a movement called "Businessmen for Religious Action." With the slogan "Worship God More in '54," they set about plans for selling religion like a new product, with film strips, pamphlets, window posters and car tags, speeches to civic clubs and printed inserts for electric and telephone bills...