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Word: brainwashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Desperation Measures." The Viet Cong, Phat said, try to brainwash U.S. prisoners. "We talk to them repeatedly, try to convince them they are being used as cat's-paws of imperialism." He followed the regular Viet Cong line by dismissing U.S. bombing raids in North Viet Nam as "desperation measures" that have "no effect on us." As to the ground war, he upped the usual Communist propaganda: "If the Americans want to fight us on equal terms, they'll need at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Life with the Viet Cong | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

Hartford suggests that we "file these notes away somewhere under the category, 'ancient history,'" but he adds that "against the spirit of these notes, against the propaganda that still tries to brainwash us with the theory that liberty and anarchy are one, we must fight to the last drops of blood...

Author: By Daniel J. Chasan, | Title: Hartford's "Art or Anarchy?" | 12/17/1964 | See Source »

...line Marxism separating him from the hated Khrushchev revisionists. Apparently, the purges have not been too successful, for last week the shadow of dialectic oblivion was falling on Mao's two most influential victims so far, and it had be gun to look as if the biggest public brainwash since 1957 was not far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: How to End the Class Struggle | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...help in the development of political leadership, COFO will establish ten daytime and three resident Freedom Schools--"to de-brainwash the kids," one SNCC worker said. The schools, which will operate five days a week, will include remedial work in reading, math, and grammar, as well as seminars in political science, the humanities, journalism, and creative writing. About 100 teachers--many of them professionals on summer vacation--will instruct the students, who will be 10th, 11th, and 12th graders...

Author: By Peter Cummings and Ellen Lake, S | Title: SNCC Gathering Hears New Directions for Movement | 4/22/1964 | See Source »

...play about individuals, to be watched by an audience, as it is a kind of communal experience of revelry, hoopla, and even mystical ecstasy. A production almost becomes a corporate singing of a national poem instead of the national anthem--through which act the characters and the audience all brainwash each other. Three cheers for Harry the All-Britannican...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Henry V Joins Stratford Festival | 7/9/1963 | See Source »

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