Word: compelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their hand at forming a new government-usually beginning with an unlikely candidate and (always excepting the Communists) moving on up the roster to the possible. There is a Gallic gimmick in this: by making the process seem over-leisurely, the President relies on rising public impatience to compel the Assembly finally to vote some government into power. Last week, casually reviewing candidates to end France's 19th political crisis in 7½years, the lords of the Assembly were momentarily shocked out of their lethargy by a man who was only the third invited to form a cabinet...
...Soviet leaders . . . have hoped to force upon America and the free world an unbearable security burden leading to economic disaster," said the President. "It is fact that there is no such thing as maximum military security short of total mobilization of all our national resources. Such security would compel us to imitate the methods of the dictator . . . There is, I believe, only one honest, workable formula . . . a defense strong enough both to discourage aggression and beyond this to protect the nation-in the event of any aggression-as it moves swiftly to full mobilization...
...making up for an inept job of explaining its case to the world, the U.S. State Department issued a statement showing just what the U.S. considers the issue of principle to be. "Members of the free world," said State, "have affirmed that there can be no force used to compel the unwilling prisoners to return to the Communists . . ." Sir Winston Churchill agrees with this principle, but he insists that the Chinese have also recognized it by agreeing to turn over unwilling prisoners to neutral custody. If, while under neutral custody, the Communists cannot "eliminate their apprehensions" about returning to their...
...anti-Communist bill in the state legislature would compel colleges to automatically suspend any teacher indicted on a charge of subversion. The Legislative Committee on Education proposed the law yesterday...
...artificial rules compel Leverett's outstanding staff to mingle with the students so they often don't. But genial Master Leigh Hoadley is always ready to trade lunch-table views with anyone on a range of subjects extending from fly-leds to the principles of general education...