Word: propagandas
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...victory in World War II and the only time in the war that defenders beat back an invasion fleet. In reporting this small triumph to Pearl Harbor, according to a story that may be apocryphal, one of Devereux's men added a bit of bravado that became a popular propaganda slogan: "Send us more Japs...
...January 1942 report -- part propaganda, part journalism -- the Soviet novelist Ilya Ehrenburg wrote of the winter battle: "The road is still long. From here to the extreme capes of Europe, to Finisterre, 'the end of the earth,' stretches the Kingdom of Death. It is a difficult road. But the Red Army continues its relentless march across the snow." By the time the spring thaw slowed the Russian counterattack, the Germans had been hurled entirely out of Moscow province. In the spring of 1942 they would still be close enough to threaten, but by then they had lost the battle...
...Meanwhile, some rural Cambodians will probably remain susceptible to Khmer Rouge populist appeals as Pol Pot's men cultivate votes. Their propaganda, though crude, can be effective. Near an abandoned pagoda about 50 miles northeast of Phnom Penh, a wall is inscribed with the caricature of an urban intellectual. His fat tongue bears the message, THE RICH MAN HAS POWER. THE POOR ARE SCARED...
Roger J. Landry '92, a member of Peninsula's council, said the purpose of this month's magazine was to "do something so the campus of homosexuals and non-homosexuals alike can get past the propaganda." Landry added that the edition was not intended to promote any "gay-bashing feelings...
...learning all over again. The home- computer network, which IBM and Sears jointly operate, offers electronic bulletin boards on which subscribers can exchange typewritten comments. Last week the Anti-Defamation League, a national monitor of hate groups, disclosed that Prodigy boards are being used to promote anti-Semitic propaganda. Messages have appeared contending, among other things, that the murder of millions during the Holocaust is "fantasy and exaggeration." Prodigy argues that such comments, however distasteful, fall within the realm of free expression. Even so, the company last week announced a restriction against "blatant expressions of bigotry" and will be meeting...