Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election. The opposition consisted primarily of those who felt that federation's skimpy safeguards of Negro status are still too much. Proponents of federation argue that the resulting dominion will be large enough to grow and prosper, to the benefit of all of its citizens. Their slogan: "Federate and flourish...
...spent the last 25 years teaching his theological students how to preach with wisdom and, if possible, with wit. Since 1948, writing under the name of Simeon Stylites in the Christian Century, he has given his readers a weekly column of pungently good-humored religious and moral criticism. His slogan: "I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable...
...Ever since the abortive resolution "blaming" Roosevelt and Truman for the plight of Eastern Europe, Senators who know something about foreign policy have realized that the "Yalta sellout" is nothing but campaign ballyhoo. Regrettably, other Senators, without the time or interest to learn the facts, have accepted the political slogan as gospel. It is a case of infatuation with one's own campaign oratory...
...weak to win but strong enough to be a bother were the revolutionary extremists: the Communists, who lost more than they gained from the election-campaign support of the Red army (and who campaigned on the slogan, "It's time for a change"), and the Union of Independents, a neo-Nazi party which won 12% of the popular vote in the last (1949) elections. The Independents talked a lot about capturing enough seats to give them a balance of power...
...assuring the survivors that he carried no ax. Said he: "I'll judge everything by three standards: 1) how good a job is done, 2) how much it costs, and 3) how it helps the overall harmony." Knowing the tendency of departments to expand, he added: "Our slogan will be empire-building in reverse...