All 16 Uses
propaganda
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
(Edited)
- Someone pointed out a cadaverous man near Hitler and told Louie that it was Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda.
p. 35.2propaganda = one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- With the Olympics over and his usefulness for propaganda expended, the village's designer, Captain Furstner, learned that he was to be cashiered from the Wehrmacht because he was a Jew.
p. 37.4
- Just as Allied soldiers, like the cultures they came from, often held virulently racist views of the Japanese, Japanese soldiers and civilians, intensely propagandized by their government, usually carried their own caustic prejudices about their enemies, seeing them as brutish, subhuman beasts or fearsome "Anglo-Saxon devils."
p. 195.1propagandized = influenced by one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinionsstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- It was one of twelve propaganda programs conducted in English and broadcast to Allied troops.
p. 246.8propaganda = one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- The broadcasters were POWs known as "propaganda prisoners," usually working under threat of execution or beating.
p. 246.8propaganda = related to one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- The Japanese had written it themselves or forced a propaganda prisoner to do so.
p. 247.2
- The bomber, soon to be named Tokyo Rose as a mocking homage to the women who broadcast Japanese propaganda, was piloted by Captain Ralph Steakley.
p. 249.4propaganda = one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- Louie consulted Martindale, who told him that several POWs had made such broadcasts, and as long as Louie didn't read propaganda, there was no harm in accepting.
p. 253.1
- Across the hall in the Federal Communications Commission station, one of her colleagues was listening to Japanese radio and typing up broadcasts for review by propaganda analysts.
p. 253.8propaganda = related to one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- It read, FOLLOWING ENEMY PROPAGANDA BROADCAST FROM JAPAN HAS BEEN INTERCEPTED.
p. 258.1propaganda = one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- On Kwajalein, after Louie's execution had been ordered, an officer had persuaded his superiors to keep Louie alive to make him into a propaganda tool.
p. 260.8propaganda = related to one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- As Louie held out his hand, the propaganda prisoners dropped their eyes to the floor.
p. 261.3
- Their faces said it all; if Louie agreed to make this broadcast, he would be forced into a life as his enemy's propagandist.
p. 261.4propagandist = person who spreads one-sided information to influence opinions
- ...Japanese photographers circled, snapping photos. Then, just as the men were ready to devour the fruit, the order came to put it all back. The entire thing had been staged for propaganda.
p. 268.3 *propaganda = one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- Since his refusal to become a propaganda prisoner, Louie had been waiting to be shipped to punishment camp.
p. 272.4propaganda = related to one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- As Sylvia jumped up, Louie swore at the voice, yelling something about propaganda prisoners.
p. 334.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(propaganda) one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions -- often misleading information of a political nature
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)