Word: exhortative
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...class of 1977 sit together on the ten yard line, fund-raisers from the class of 1947 sit together on the fifty. But here it is not class against class; it is Harvard against Yale. With all the ferocity of rivals who are more alike than dissimiliar, the fans exhort their team to demolish the oppostion. They chant cheers as refined as "Fair Harvard" or "Bingo, bingo, that's the lingo" (written by Cole Porter, Yale '13), and as unrefined as "A quart is two pints, a gallon is four quarts; Harvard men will eat Yale's shorts." While...
...recollects, he was a family man, an inspirational leader who could exhort his players in a style that might make Pat O'Brien misty. His enmities, claims Leo, were transient, his friendships permanent. Sidney Weil, onetime owner of the Cincinnati Reds, with whom the Lip did many a dubious battle, is "the nicest, kindest man I have ever known." Ed Barrow of the Yankees, a notorious Durocher rival, is "the best friend I had in baseball." Branch Rickey, another erstwhile enemy, is "the great man" in Leo's life...
...Enjoy, the beauty of New England on a fall foliage tour," exhort the travel brochures, conjuring up visions of rustic splendor only hours away from the seasonless megalopolis. All too often, city folk who drive to the rural areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine in search of autumn find each other instead. The once solitary experience of watching the leaves turn color has become a mass spectator sport in the Northeast...
...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...