Word: exhortation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team. They felt it needlessly antagonized the graduating seniors on the team; that even though Bingham meant only a few offenders, it reflected on the whole team, and that if he really wanted to improve the training of the team he should have waited until next September to exhort the team to train vigorously...
...must congratulate the Council for sponsoring this investigation, however absent-mindedly, and exhort it to do more of the same; one must admire Poskanzer and Wyant for taking the whole man as their province, and wish them luck in their undertaking...
...unity. Hoffman tried to deflect some of this resentment. He was taking a crack at the British when he called upon the governments to give exporters "direct incentives." Said Hoffman: "Practically all Europe's exports are furnished by private producers. Governments may set targets ; they may exhort; but unless sales in dollar markets bring adequate rewards to sellers, the great effort required to enter and hold those markets will never be made...
...stage in the vast Manhattan Center, where Willie lay in state. Beneath it was the sentence: "We mourn our loss." Four thousand of his union brothers & sisters crowded into the high-vaulted auditorium for the service. Outside 20,000 more heard the impassioned voice of Union President David Dubinsky exhort the mourners: "Little did we think that in 1949 we would have to sacrifice a man. What a mistake that employer made! This union will not permit it, no matter what the police department or the district attorney want...
...Academy graduates like a Chinese father. There were good reasons. The Communists were still a constant threat to Nationalist China-and Japanese intentions were perfectly plain to Chiang. But in 1931, when Japan occupied Manchuria, Chiang was cautious. He was still building his Whampoa-trained army. Said he: "We exhort the entire nation to maintain a dignified calm...