Word: compelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unattractive woman, old for her age and with "a loud and deep voice" in which she had "never learnt to lie," but only, as she said, "to be plain with you." She had one fixed intention: to restore the old religion. But she swore "graciously not to compel or constrain" the consciences of those who had accepted...
...Whoever knowingly transports in interstate commerce any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose, or with the intent and purpose to induce, entice, or compel such woman or girl to become a prostitute or give herself to debauchery, or to engage in any other immoral practice...
...Whoever knowingly procures or obtains any ticket or tickets, or any form of transportation to be used by any woman or girl in interstate commerce in going to any place for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery or purpose to so induce, entice or compel...
Early next year, said Budget Director Joseph Dodge, Congress will have to raise the debt limit. In the meantime, said he, the Government could probably borrow beyond the limit because Congress has passed appropriations for the next few years which could easily compel government spending beyond the present debt limit. But, he added, nobody in the Administration wants to do that because "people might not like the bonds...
...reasons given in yesterday's editorial for a bill to compel testimony before Congressional committees was this: as long as witnesses kept the real extent of Communist infiltration indistinct through use of the Fifth Amendment, such infiltration could be magnified by cheap politicians. The latest McCarthy-Furry affair is a timely example. McCarthy stated, that, in closed hearings, Furry refused to testify about radar espionage and indoctrination of students. With this as a springboard, he could call the University "a smelly mess," where members of the Communist Party are currently on the faculty, feeding students "Communist philosophy...