Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also be exploited. In fact, Russia, in an effort to take advantage of those hopes, has already established a "People's Congress" in the Eastern Zone, which is ready to announce a new "All German State" and invite unification as soon as a Western State is set up. Russian propaganda constantly reminds the people and the convention delegates that they "don't have to give in at Bonn"--they can always join the Eastern State and become a whole nation again...
...first novel, a story of a Red army hospital train in World War II. Published in the U.S., The Train proves to be exceptional in recent Soviet fiction for sticking to its own tracks, with no side excursions into politics and only the rarest toots of the propaganda whistle...
...Atlantic Pact a fortnight ago formalized the split between the two countries. But much more serious than this diplomatic hardening of the arteries has been the growth of anti-Russian feeling in this country. A significant part of the American press has parlayed domestic news into direct propaganda with viciousness and determination...
Techniques vary, Some papers, like the Boston Herald, have done it bluntly, and on a propaganda level, stupidly. Last week, that paper splashed a story all over page one about the grip that communists supposedly had on Lawrence, Massachusetts, without a single fact to back it up. It pictured the mill town threatened by near-revolution in such a hysterical way as to amuse even the least skeptical reader; the thinness of the mixture made the Herald's story an obvious piece of propaganda...
...French student at Salzburg last summer wrote. "One of the most admirable things about the Seminar was the absence of official propaganda. Most of the American students and professors proved entirely unbiased and broadminded, willing to learn about Europe as much as we were to learn about America...