Word: binds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreement on issues, the same grants would mean loss of face to a national representative. Although spokesmen for Moscow now pattern their views on the narrow interests of their particular countries, this minority of bound votes is too small to effect the group's supranational outlook. In seeking to bind all of the delegates to national interests, the United States may be stifling one of the UN's most effective commissions...
There was no great national issue to bind the House races together in a package for either party. Many winners were entirely unprepared for the results, a situation best summed up by a flustered Democrat, Mrs. Martha Griffiths, who won a Detroit seat from the G.O.P. Posing for her election victory picture, she pleaded: "Don't photograph my legs. I didn't have time for stockings...
...most terrible wars in history have had any lesson for mankind, it is that a treaty is often worth no more than the paper it fills. Yet today, world peace is more dependent on these pieces of paper than ever before. They bind the United States, for instance, to all of Latin America, most of Europe, and a good part of Asia. In the next few days, study groups of professionals and dedicated amateurs will meet all over the country to pull land haw at the biggest, and also the flimsiest, of the documents--the Charter of the United Nations...
...sided inspection of the stresses in the imperial structure would be falsely encouraging; The Formation of the Soviet Union has a sobering effect as well. It exposes the sinews that bind the borderlands to the empire, and make a Tito-like rebellion within the Soviet Union a very dim prospect. Nearly every disruptive force inside the USSR evokes a counterforce which helps preserve stability. The dynamics of the USSR have changed very little since 1924 in this respect...
...Harvard Liberal Union reaffirmed its status as an autonomous political organization last night by narrowly defeating a move to bind its future actions to the policy decisions of the state A.D.A...