California used to be America's chief propagandist against smoking, but Massachusetts is now back in front.

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He was seen less and less as a disinterested researcher, and more and more as a propagandist.

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"Rushdie liberated the Indian writer from propagandist stuff and self-conscious writing, " says Khushwant Singh, one of India's best-known authors.

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Is Houellebecq really a novelist, or is he just a novelizing propagandist?

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I'm a propagandist for the idea that if everybody says, "The devil take the hindmost, " the devil soon works his way to the head of the line.

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He has left out the battle of the airwaves, where both sides expended huge amounts of time, effort and money on radio stations that ranged from the overtly propagandist to the clandestinely tweaked.

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But he was not by nature a propagandist.

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Walter Farmer, though, was never a propagandist.

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He proved a brilliant propagandist.

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