Word: exhorters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the film does not have some good moments. The scene in which the "Planotones" (Danny and the Juniors) record "Come and Go With Me" truly captures that magic second when artists find the groove and turn onto something classic. As Freed watches his producer exhort the "Planotones," you can't help but be struck by the thrill of discovery the musicians must have felt...
...financing company that had been invited in as a comanager. Among the hundreds of obligations are loans to owners of race tracks, jai-alai frontons, boat slips, tennis courts and a $5 million mortgage on Ohio's Cathedral of Tomorrow, whose minister, Sawdust Evangelist Rex Humbard, likes to exhort: "You'd better straighten out and fly right with God." Last year $52 million was on loan to parties-in-interest," meaning institutions or individuals who have business or fiduciary relations with the fund; 55 loans were classified as "uncollectible" and 26 were in outright default. A generous proportion...
...both that campaign and the one against the consumer protection agency, business lobbyists also roused the folks back home to put heat on Congress. They formed Southern businessmen's groups to exhort Dixie House members, and some corporations sent letters to stockholders urging them to write to Congressmen in opposition to the consumer agency. Says Andrew Biemiller, chief AFL-CIO lobbyist: "One thing they can do is flood that goddamned Hill with letters." Motley adds that the N.F.I.B. can turn out "local auto dealers, local accountants and dry cleaners, hardware dealers, dairymen-Kiwanians, Lions, church people. When we tell...
...season when college and university commencement speakers exhort the capped and gowned to go forth and confront the world. A sampling of what 14 of the best, the brightest and the most beautiful in the class of 77 see ahead for themselves...
...that made the difference in a sloppy second half, replacing Bok's charges after a four-minute scoreless spell in the opening moments. Lanky University Consultant Jim Bailey (Bok: "He really is a consultant, you know, not a ringer") ferociously racked the boards, prompting scrappy forward Lori Christensen to exhort, "Box those turkeys...