Word: exhortation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exhort and comfort! Comfort and exhort! . . . Up rises our old friend, Mr. A. V. Alexander of the Admiralty to tell us that all's well and the Navy's there. Then, optimism breaking out like a rash over the face of the press, his ever-loving colleague, Mr. Ernie Bevin . . . has to come clattering down like a load of bricks on our heads to tell us that we're too complacent and that times are going to get even tougher. Now if Alex and Ernie could only arrange to make a bookkeeping entry instead of a newspaper...
...plant also has more charm for the female worker than work in an old-fashioned factory. Aircraft plants, for instance, are likely to be brand-new, one-floor, fluorescent-lighted places, with plenty of space. The atmosphere is air-conditioned and stimulating -signs, flags, mottoes, charts exhort speed and more speed. Machinery is compact, beltless, quiet. And management constantly concerns itself with worker morale...
Among the offers he received was one from a Radcliffe girl who thought the bagpipes might relieve her boredom, one from the third Eliot House crew which wanted the coxswain to exhort the men with them, and another from Huey Livingston, the Scotch janitor of Memorial Hall...
...caught up is the picture in its own hysteria, that it overlooks the fact that the pastor never fights. Not once did he even strike a strom trooper. Not once did he exhort his parishioners to do so. He is the "turn-the-other-cheek" type of Christian. Yet Jimmy Roosevelt ('37) tries to transmute this inspiring figure into a little tin Christ. If it weren't so ominous, we could afford to laugh...
...Hollow-cheeked old Gustav V rode out to Stockholm's stadium, warned 30,000 holiday-making Swedes: "The danger is not past. ... I therefore exhort you not to relax." >Bitter, broken and bewildered, Leopold III, King of the Belgians, brooded in his castle at Laeken, on Brussels' edge. Execrated by his allies, who were not to be placated by the restrained comments of the British Prime Minister, repudiated by his own Government, by his overseas empire, by approximately one-third of his eight million people (fled to France), by nearly every important personage of his country, Leopold...