Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clarence Randall, another of the new internationalists, wrote: "The new corps of business leaders . . . hold in their competent hands the future of free enterprise ... It is their mission ... to keep America strong." Then he accepted the challenge himself by heading a commission aimed at turning "trade, not aid" from slogan into fact...
...sake" is a desirable slogan, why not "science for science's sake"? Modern scientists, whose goals are apt to be shaped by armed forces' research grants or a corporation's search for bigger & better laboratory-tested mousetraps, are diffident about performing their experiments for pure research purposes. Sir Edward Appleton, principal of the University of Edinburgh and a Nobel Prizewinner in physics, believes that "science for its own sake" is a slogan to be proud of. His thesis, as quoted in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Science is illuminating as well as fruitful." Says Sir Edward...
...office three years ago, he wooed the isolated backland voters with hillbilly songs (How can a fish live out of water? How can I live without you?) and dazzling promises of roads and electricity. Unlike many another Brazilian political charmer, Juscelino is making his campaign oratory come true. His slogan: "What I start I finish...
...fought against the military pact with the U.S. when I was a Senator; I did not agree with its wording," he said. But now "the pact is a pledge which binds us to the U.S. To ask its denunciation is only a Communist slogan . . . What do the workers know about the military pact? What they say is only a line imported from behind the Iron Curtain, where there are ten million slave workers...
...stepped up their news broadcasts as well as ads. NBC put sandwich men on the streets carrying signs: "Ask Me for the Latest News." When asked, the sandwich men tuned in portable radios to newscasts. NBC also stepped up its newscasts from 23 to 48 a day, used the slogan, "You'll never miss your newspaper...