Word: exhorter
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...very rare indeed in the early years for an issue of the Bulletin to neglect to congratulate, console, or exhort some Crimson athletic team...
...Right Ahead." For the first time in five months, the general had come out of the rural isolation of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises (pop. 312) to exhort his withering but still formidable army into renewed assaults on the French government and its policies. For France's most powerful ally, he had recrimination: "The U.S. wishes to hold in check the Soviet block-but not engage its own troops . . .They sent money and material to Indo-China-but left the French to do the fighting. They are ready to arm any country to fight the Russians-and if necessary command...
When Massachusetts Americans for Democratic Action invited State Treasurer Foster Furcolo, a onetime (1949-52) Fair Dealing Congressman, to speak to their state convention last week, they thought they would get the typical pep talk with which ADAers exhort each other to do battle with the "forces of reaction." Instead they got a sharp jolt: Democrat Furcolo, who is expected to run for the U.S. Senate next year, as much as told them they should pack up and disband...
City officials in the front row almost winced before the tensed, gesticulating hands of the 38-year-old Jesuit. His voice dramatically softened: "It is not the church's job to solve all the questions of society. But we do exhort you to a crusade against passiveness and smug satisfaction." A pause, then the loudspeakers fairly rattled: "Against this and the bit of social swine that lies...
Last week, in Little Rock's Hotel Marion, "Ham" Moses threw a steak dinner for some 700 top Arkansans to report on progress and exhort his guests to still greater accomplishments. Arms waving, tangled grey hair falling over his eyes, Ham Moses ticked off some impressive statistics on Arkansas' ten-year growth...