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Provided by the compucert hortatory \HOR-tuh-tor-ee\, adjective:
- Marked by strong urging; serving to encourage or incite; as, "a hortatory speech."
Hortatory is from Latin hortatorius, from hortari, "to exhort, to incite, to encourage."
Tooth sweater - When you go for a day or so without brushing your teeth, and the texture in your mouth feels like your teeth are wearing fuzzy little sweaters.
"Oh, you've got tooth sweaters?"
Trivia
Why was one of the United States’s four-man bobsled teams disqualified at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway?
- The runners on the team’s bobsled were too warm—they exceeded the allowable temperature by 0.9 degrees Celsius. It was the first such disqualification in Olympic history. Under the rules, a bobsled’s runners cannot be more than 4 degrees Celsius above the temperature of a test runner left exposed to the air for at least an hour.
- Native Americans: were granted US citizenship (1924)
- Lou Gehrig: Yankee slugger died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a rare degenerative disease that now carries his name (1941)
- Queen Elizabeth II: coronation of the long-reigning monarch was held in Westminster Abbey; she wore a gown embroidered with floral emblems of the countries of the Commonwealth (1953)
- Martha Washington (1731-1802): America's first First Lady; First Lady Helen Taft (1861-1943) shared this date
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): the novelist who wrote Tess of the D'Urbervilles; plus, writers Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), John Lehmann (1907-1987?) and Barbara Pym (1913-1980)
- Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984): swimmer who switched strokes and became an actor, Tarzan the Ape Man; Tarzan portrayer Ron Ely (71) shares this birth date
- Marvin Hamlisch (65): composer of A Chorus Line; other musicians born on this date were Charlie Watts (68) and Merril Bainbridge (41)
- Wentworth Miller (37): Michael Scofield on Fox's Prison Break; also, actors Stacy Keach (68), Dennis Haysbert (55), Dana Carvey (54), Wayne Brady (37), Zachary Quinto (32), Nikki Cox and Justin Long (both 31)
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