Word: exhorted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...