Word: compelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adams, Dunster, Kirkland, and Winthrop were the winners in the first round of debates sponsored by the newly-formed House Debate League. The question was: "Resolved: That the Federal Government should compel the state of Alabama to grant equal educational opportunities to Negroes...
...secretary of agriculture. Given authority over the land, Joseph stored corn in the plenteous years and sold it back to the people during the famine for gold rings, cattle and land. But there has been great dispute about Joseph's right to appropriate surplus crops and then compel the people to pay for them. What is more, his system eventually resulted in state ownership of all the land, and some people thought that was entirely too much government control...
...annual population increase," said Institute Director George H. L. Zeegers in The Hague last week. "In the rest of the world Catholics are contributing to the problem by the doctrine they advocate. We as Catholics have duty to find a solution to the problem. My aim is to compel the church to see its responsibility...
...capricious despotism merely to make him a vehicle of Russian propaganda. Now the Russians say that they welcome correspondents and will not interfere with their filing of objective dispatches. We are willing to find out whether they mean it . . .If [Moore] finds that censorship or restrictions on his movements compel him to send doctored news or propaganda, he will come home...
Irle explained that "the topics of these preliminary debates won't involve too much research, for many of those participating will not be very experienced." The subject debated in the opening round will be: "Resolved: That the Federal government should compel the state of Alabama to grant equal educational opportunities to Negroes...