Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrested in Topeka for displaying on his car a flag decal with an overlaid peace symbol. The charges were dropped after his lawyer argued that 1) a decal is not a flag, and 2) Topeka police cars bear decals on which the flag design is defaced by the slogan: "Love It or Leave...
simply ruthlessly and senselessly exploiting the poor and the oppressed. The word "expansion" was then seized on as a slogan and chanted again and again in mindless fashion to confuse and defame, and beyond this, it was hoped, to impress the confused and by doing so to gain increased support...
...first years of their marriage, the Fitzgeralds managed to live a life fit for her fantasies. He was the precocious, popular author. Her slogan was Let's do something! and Scott was only too glad to comply, whether it was carousing all night or arriving at Sam Goldwyn's party on all fours, barking. There was no room in this private playground for a real child, and the birth of Frances ("Scottie") complicated their lives. Zelda had no maternal feelings-especially for a little blonde girl...
...This is a problem that must have started with George Washington," says one Nixon man. "If everybody went in immediately whenever he needed something, the White House wouldn't work." Harry Truman kept on his desk a sign that read THE BUCK STOPS HERE. It was a nice, punchy slogan, but the buck got to him only after it had filtered through his personal staff. Nor is it a new idea that the men who do the winnowing can exercise extraordinary power. Clark Clifford, a perennial adviser to postwar Democratic administrations, remembers an Eisenhower aide telling him that...
Radical Conservative. To begin with, there was the problem of the campaign slogan: "No more bullshit." In fact, to discuss the Mailer campaign without generous samples of the excesses that salted his speeches and staff communications would be like discoursing on American democracy without mentioning De Tocqueville. Fornication and cancer are used so often as aggressive metaphors that they seem to take on the roiling essence of Mailer himself...