Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight months ago, as he whipped up Sicilian voters with the slogan, "Sicily for the Sicilians. Down with the mainland," owl-eyed Silvio Milazzo (TIME, June 22) indignantly denied that he was proCommunist. "I am no Trojan horse," intoned dissident Christian Democrat Milazzo. "I am a pure-blooded Sicilian horse, a noble animal." He became president of Sicily's semi-autonomous regional government, ruling in coalition with the Communists. But last week Maverick Milazzo, no longer regarded as so pure-blooded a Sicilian horse, was put to pasture...
...agriculture," and Kennedy and Symington have outdone him with rival six-point programs, but all three programs are short on specifics. Johnson says that "American ingenuity should be equal to the task" of channeling surplus food to "those who need it," but his own ingenuity has produced only a slogan ("food bin of freedom"). Administration insiders say that Nixon, with the President's tacit blessing, is planning to speak out with a farm program of his own, departing from Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's rigidities enough to sidestep the massive dislike that Benson has piled up among...
...President's message--the last, hopefully, ofthe era of government by slogan--is in many respects typical of the Eisenhower administration's attitude toward the public: instead of rallying the people to an awareness of problems and to a willingness to make sacrifices for their solution, the Administration chooses to act and speak as if all were well with the nation and the world. Eisenhower may get away cheaply in the remaining year of his term, but the issues he has ignored will return to plague his successor, just as the fragile house of Coolidge prosperity crashed down on Herbert...
...Washington, 10,000 boys and girls from every state but Alaska and Nevada -as well as from Europe, Singapore, Jamaica and Brazil-assembled under the auspices of Youth for Christ for a three-day "Capital Teen Convention" at the National Guard Armory, under the bannered slogan: TEENS TELLING TEENS IN THE WORLD'S DECADE OF DESTINY. Layman Ted W. Engstrom of the Evangelical Free Church, president of Youth for Christ International, urged his plaid-shirted and bobby-soxed audience to write down the motto: "Christ Constantly in Command, Christ Completely in Control," and to put it into practice...