Word: exhortations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high, his shield and spear in hand: "Follow me," he beckons to the people, "this evil king betrays his sacred trust." More princes and military captains mimic his example, defiling the name of the monarch and calling the people to rebellion. Then, remarkably, these same slanderers of the king exhort him to lead them...
Most observers give the bill even less chance, but give White high marks as a gadfly. No sooner does he finish testifying before a congressional committee than he rushes across the nation to exhort concerned citizen groups to let the Government know their interests in energy matters. So far, his tangible successes have been minor; most recently, for example, he helped to force the Federal Energy Office to publish its contingency plans for nationwide gas rationing. And last week Energy Chief William Simon created an Office of Consumer Affairs within FEO-but at a public meeting coupled that announcement with...
...unpredictable. Watkins Glen went like clockwork. It even rained on time. Because of the precision, there could be no spirit of Watkins Glen. Yet in the midst of the crush at the stage of Suffolk Downs last week, one young girl stood on her friend's shoulders to exhort the crowd...
...today and said the things he used to say, he would make the Italians laugh." However, added Almirante, "if he were alive today, he would be a postFascist like me, and he would say different things. Everything has changed. Do you want me to appear on the balcony and exhort the country to go to war? That's laughable now. But I do not spit on that past. I am not ashamed of having lost the war. I did my duty, as so many...
Women should be revolting, Liberator Germaine Greer told an audience at Montreal's McGill University. But their revolt should be nonviolent: "I would never presume to exhort the small band of really dedicated women who are prepared to die to go into the streets and be killed, because we need them to work among their sisters." The Germaine strategy for women is rather "to refuse to support the consumer-based economy-to stop buying or cut way back in their spending...