Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Debate. The still feisty but less abrasive style turned out to be highly effective in Florida. So did his provocative anti-Establishment slogan, "Send them a message." Wallace's polls had given him some 32% of the vote; privately he hoped to do as well as 35%, about as much as any outside analyst conceded him. When an aide told him that he would carry Miami's Dade County, Wallace berated him for faulty research. As the returns rolled in, Wallace's elation mounted. "The people of Florida sent a message to the national political leaders...
...election was indeed a personal triumph for India's Prime Minister. A year ago, she led her splintered party to victory in parliamentary elections under the campaign slogan "Garibi hatao" (Erase poverty), but failed to gain control of several key state governments. Having taken 70% of the states' assembly seats last week, the New Congress Party will now govern 17 of India's 21 states...
...vote for me, God will be angry and you will go to hell." That was the imperative campaign slogan adopted by two candidates, who also happened to be pastors. A leader of the popular "cargo cult," which preaches that some day a fleet of airplanes will bring the white man's goods to deserving natives, also invoked the Almighty. He assured voters that he had been nominated by God to be the first President of Papua New Guinea. A Bougainville Island sorcerer held a conjuring ceremony to make the election go away, so that the spirits of islanders...
...active lives or make them feel guilty about staying home. But the organized female resistance to the movement has been largely frivolous: MOM (for Men Our Masters), started by a Manhattan secretary, and its men's auxiliary WOW (for Women Our Wonders); and the Pussycat League, with its slogan "The lamb chop is mightier than the karate chop." More serious criticism has come from Ti-Grace Atkinson, an early theorist of the New Feminism who withdrew from the movement more than a year ago. Says Atkinson: "There is no movement. Movement means going some place, and the movement...
...thing interesting about travelling around New Hampshire was the slogan emblazoned on New Hampshire license plates: "Live Free or Die." This is the state motto, taken from the Revolution, but this is the first year it has been so boldly displayed. The alternative to freedom was perhaps in William Loeb's mind as he blasted "Moscow Muskie...