Word: exhort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential soft sell, the lowered voice and the low silhouette had produced the impression of a vacuum in Washington. Now Richard Nixon is reacting against this feeling of drift. Under the pressure of events, he has begun to exhort and to "jawbone." The pace is still hardly breakneck or the mood galvanic compared with those of more activist Presidents, but Nixon is clearly determined to reassert a sense of leadership...
...among other things, impeach the professional resources of TIME magazine for not having discovered this signal piece of intelligence in the course of preparing a cover story on me. I write to you because I care what you believe, and because, in the same issue of TIME magazine, you exhort all of America to indignation. I don't see a better provocation to indignation than Vidal, and it surprises me-hell, it pains me-that your writer should, after acknowledging that the low blows were Vidal's, repeat them matter-of-factly...
Pray for Rain. The inspectors were no more understanding at the First State Bank of Dodson, which simply followed that Panhandle community in decline, or at Big Lake, an oil and ranch town on the flatlands of West Texas, where billboards exhort passers-by to "pray for rain." Horace B. Rees, 64, president of the Big Lake State Bank, "let his heart overload his sense." as one customer says, and tried to lure industry to the town by loaning seed capital to dubious ventures. Big Lake, however, was deprived of banking services for only a week. Three groups...
...long as the bombs were raining down, the North Vietnamese people saw the need for sacrifice. But once the bombing stopped, the populace began to look for some fruits of what their leaders said had been a glorious victory. None were forthcoming, and the regime has been forced to exhort its people more than ever to work harder and retain a warlike spirit. If this analysis is correct, then all the allied claims justifying the bombing as demoralizing to Ho's people would seem to have been in error...
...wishes.* It is not an end in itself, in spite of the desire by many to worship such procedures as reason, logic, and pragmatism as cardinal virtues. This view fits neatly into American-style utilitarianism, especially since a "resort to reason" is continually used to justify existing conditions, exhort others to be practical, etc. Frankly, I have no use whatsoever for practicality and reason unless they are subordinated to basic human needs. Otherwise, reason is nothing more than oppression (compare the misuse of this concept with the equally distorted "free" in the mythical "free world...