Word: exhortion
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...Alliance, known by its Spanish acronym of ARENA. Sidewalk intersections are spray-painted with the green fish symbol of ARENA'S chief rival in the eight-party presidential race, the centrist Christian Democrats led by Jose Napoleon Duarte. On El Salvador's four television channels, political advertisements exhort voters to choose the man among the many who can save the country...
...ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front. Along roadsides and on the adobe walls of village buildings, posters inveigh against the evils of "Yankee imperialism." Other placards extol "revolutionary heroes" who have fought against and died in a U.S.-backed "counterrevolutionary" threat. In local schools, factories and farming cooperatives, activists exhort citizens to volunteer for militia duty. Under a new conscription law that went into effect this month, Nicaragua, which already has the largest armed forces in Central America, will be able to double the size of its military, to 250,000 troops...
...make CARP into a moral and popular force on campus, once that occurred, pressurized students could easily be drawn in and absorbed by the Unification Church's paternal comforts. That wasn't quite the way it worked, though The Moonies' escapades were inevitably transparent and usually laughable attempts to exhort students to take up right-wing anti-Soviet causes. On one memorable afternoon, a CARP member dressed as a Russian tank spent a good two hours chasing a mop-wigged colleague (identified as a peace-monger) around a lawn at the center of campus, in an elaborately choreographed ideological skit...
While U.S. Commissioner of Education under Richard Nixon, Terrel Bell admitted that being at odds with the President "is really part of the job." Said he: "I want to exhort, stir things up, tread on toes." After serving under Gerald Ford, Bell backed the ultimately successful drive to make education a department separate from the morass of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services). Now, as the prospective Education Secretary, the final Cabinet choice to be named by Ronald Reagan, Bell should find it easy to be at odds with his new boss, who favors dismantling the year...
...calendar. Riled, his hosts would sing his praises over dessert nonetheless. He was the answer to their prayers, after all; the essential reason for the elegant, confident glow of the evening. Editor William F. Buckley Jr. would shine quietly, modestly. Others, like Publisher William Rusher, would exhort the assembled "to stamp out any remaining embers of liberalism." A war whoop was in the air?black tie, to be sure?but still the unmistakable sound of a faction reprieved, at last in power, thanks to the boyish man at the other end of the country, whose time had definitely come...