Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. James Joseph Kilroy, 60, an inspector in Bethlehem Steel's Quincy shipyards, who may or may not have been the Kilroy who was there; of lung cancer; in Boston. In answer to a 1946 American Transit Association contest to discover the originator of the World War II slogan carried by G.I.s to the ends of the earth, Kilroy replied that he had crawled deep inside ships' hulls, chalking KILROY WAS HERE as his inspector's mark. The Transit Association thought enough of his explanation to award him a prize: a 22-ton streetcar, which his nine...
...Official requests went out to the Indian press not to print photos showing the arrival of U.S. arms, and the twelve U.S. Air Force transport planes sent by Washington to ferry Indian troops were made to sound like leased aircraft flown by mercenaries. The crowds know better. A current slogan is a revision of the earlier cry for brotherhood with China: "Americans bhai bhai; Chini hai hail" (Americans are our brothers; death to the Chinese...
...Magic Slogan. By their votes and by their abstentions (the percentage of stay-at-homes was the largest since 1881), the voters dealt a crushing blow to the "parties of yesteryear," in De Gaulle's scornful phrase; parties that represent no "doctrine" but only a "clientele." The election went far toward resolving the conflict between France's old. divisively individualist parliamentary tradition and the strong presidential system that De Gaulle believes is essential if France is to achieve stability and self-respect...
...candidate seemingly needed td" win was the Gaullists' magic slogan on the ballot: "For the Fifth Republic." In Marseille, U.N.R. Candidate Yves Le Tac, a stranger to the area, who had survived two assassination attempts by the SAO in France, went into hiding throughout the campaign for fear of SAO retaliation. In the end, he led all candidates, including a millionaire shipowner who is one of the region's few popular capitalists. Independent Deputy Edouard Frédéric-Dupont, who has presided over his Paris district so long that he is called the "Archbishop...
...been made, however, to re-create in Cuba the conditions that enabled Tito to assert his independence. It is worth recalling that American businessmen and diplomats were sufficiently active in Belgrade for Pravda to cite the presence of "Washington agents" as steady proof of Tito's unreliability. That silly slogan about Communism not being negotiable in this hemisphere was, fortunately, not applied to the northern half of the globe...