Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frightening bumper sticker slogan was born, characteristic of an attitude arising from the stultifying pattern of major events coming from and leading to nowhere. Kurt Vonnegut's deadening commentary on Dresden in Slaughterhouse Five "So it goes," was transposed into: "Shit happens...
...through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights doctrine...
Bush will have to present legitimate reasons for Texans to vote for him, something he lacks. His only campaign slogan in the past was that Texas was his home state, and he can't count on that if he keeps insulting the only person who cares enough to actually help the state...
Nesson said that past covert actions have indicated a "disbelief in our own rhetoric of democracy and converted it from a powerful ideal to a transparent political slogan." He called for reform of the National Security Act of 1947, which established the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council and implicitly endorses covert actions...
Earlier this year, Winchester tested his theories on the Soviets. Armed with the slogan "Love is the ultimate first-strike capability," Winchester joined a Soviet-American task force on "changing perspectives in global security" to demonstrate his technique to four visiting Soviet dignitaries. "Millions of people the world over may be unconsciously generating coherent force fields when they enter deep prayer and meditation," he told them. The Soviets, who have been calling for "soldier to soldier" contact modeled on the famous meeting at the Elbe River during World War II, were said to be extremely pleased...