Word: exhorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insist they don't make a profit, in the long run. The considerable amount of money brought in from a play such as Death of A Salesman goes to fill the deficit for some such turkey as Macbeth. And it is useless to exhort the Club not to produce bad plays. The big income for a production like Hamlet is met by equally big expenses for extravagant costumes and costly set construction. If the HDC could reduce spending on these two items, perhaps ticket prices might be lowered to a more reasonable level; certainly cost of a production...
...week, Francis Cardinal Spellman issued a rare condemnation from his pulpit, denouncing Baby Doll as "revolting," "deplorable," '"morally repellent" and "grievously offensive to Christian standards of decency." Declared His Eminence: "In solicitude for the welfare of souls entrusted to my care and the welfare of my country, I exhort Catholic people to refrain from patronizing this film under pain...
...evenings when a particular street is to be cleaned, a police sound truck will exhort car-owners to park their cars according to the new plan; on the evening of even-numbered days cars must be parked on the even-numbered sides, and vice versa. Violators will be ticketed, but not, under present plans, towed away...
...peasant economy into a modern industrial state in a single generation. In the meantime we, whose position is fundamentally decent and honorable, have so mismanaged ourselves of late that we must now try to prove that we love peace as much as the Russians . . . On the one hand, we exhort the world about the virtues of the U.S. On the other hand, most of our official dealings seem to be in terms of military threats, military alliances and military values...
Actually each successive Five-Year Plan (piatiletka) is a set of production targets which the state planners then exhort the Russian people to attain by superhuman effort. The sixth piatiletka (1956-60) is more than usually superhuman: in the next five years heavy industry must be up 70%, pig iron up 70%, steel up 51%, coal up 49%, oil up 100%, building up 52%, consumer goods up 60%; in agriculture grain production must increase 80%, while labor efficiency on state farms must rise 70%, on collectives 100%. Incentives are a calculated feature of piatiletki: 55 million workers will...