Word: exhort
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...blandness of disco and the slickness of rhythm and blues, disk jockeys in black dance clubs began manipulating their turntables to blend instrumental riffs from different songs, dragging the needle across a record to create an even harsher sound. While these brash mixes played, M.C.s, or rappers, would exhort the crowd with chants: "When I die, bury me deep;/ Put two speakers at my feet,/ A mixer at my head,/ So that when you close the casket/ I can rock the dead...
...only that: apart from a scattering of rock throwing and puncturing of company truck tires, the strikers were following a new strategy of civil disobedience, staging sit-ins and getting themselves arrested for "obstructing free passage." The leaders even called in the Rev. Jesse Jackson to exhort a cheering crowd of 10,000 that gathered in the village of Wise. "The tradition of John L. Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. have come together!" he cried. "You are in pain, but don't panic...
...surveyed by the Western Governors' Association, falsely believe the region would have sufficient water if only profligate cities like Newport Beach, Calif., and Scottsdale, Ariz., made do with fewer swimming pools and car washes. Rather than match supply to demand by steeply raising water rates, most political leaders merely exhort residents to take shorter showers and flush toilets less often. Los Angeles will soon spend $600,000 broadcasting such bromides...
Despite Harvard's 17-year-old battle with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), union director Kris Rondeau was invited to discuss union organizing at an official reunion event yesterday, and she used that platform to exhort alumni to voice their opposition to Harvard's antiunion legal maneuvering...
Doyle described the forewarned colonists' resistance to Major Pitcairn's British Regulars ("General Parker will steady his men and exhort them to courage..."), and General Thaddeus Parker's famous order, "Don't fire until fired upon, but if they will have war, let it begin here...