Word: sloganism
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...Peace, progress and prosperity" has been a continuing-and unassailable-accomplishment as well as a slogan of the Eisenhower Administration. After Russia's Sputnik flashed across the sky, and after the stock market plunged, progress suddenly seemed-in headlines, at least-the sole property of the Russians. Turning to Washington for reassurance, the U.S. saw administrative confusion, sensed a crisis in leadership and demanded action...
...Aleppo!" In the U.N., Syrian Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar, sounding more than ever like a Soviet ventriloquist's dummy, demanded a full-scale debate on "the threat to Syria's security." Said he: "The Turkish troops have apparently been given a slogan, 'To Aleppo!', which they now publicly repeat." Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko delightedly expanded the charge: "Apparently," said he, "the intention of the U.S.A. is to employ in Syria the method it resorted to in suppressing the independence of Guatemala." U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge promptly welcomed "an opportunity for a full airing...
...reported the loss of 40 dead in the nine clashes but claimed to have killed five times that many government troops. For his next move Castro called for wide-scale sabotage, through his underground, of Cuba's all-important sugar-cane harvest, which traditionally starts in January. His slogan: "Batista without harvest or harvest without Batista...
...famous communist slogan reads: "Religion is the opium of the people." Consequently the communists began with the negation of God. This was the fundamental point of their educational system--the negation of everything in disagreement with their philosophy, beginning with the ultimate. Faith in God was substituted with faith in the communist regime, particularly in the deified communist leaders. The goal of this "secular religion" manufactured in Moscow was to supersede the church and belief in God with a host of communist demigods, starting with Lenin and Stalin and ending with Rakosi for Hungarian consumption, Georghiu Dei for Rumanian, Boleslaw...
...Bill Lee. Trying at first to campaign on moral grounds, Haggerty opened campaign headquarters in the gargantuan Fontainebleau Hotel, dispensed several cases of liquor before he discovered that the Teamster delegates were less morally indignant over Hoffa's actions than they were thirsty. "We got a new slogan," rasped one Hoffaman: " 'Haggerty for integrity. Hoffa for president.' " Bill Lee, too, ran a losing battle, for among other things, he boasted the doubtful backing of Western Conference Teamster Boss Frank Brewster, a corruption-stained baron who had long fought Hoffa's climb to power. Didn...