Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considerable portions of their incomes for the duration of the war (TIME, March 25). "Why," asked Sir John warmly, "should we suppose that the willing exertions of our people, if properly roused and directed, will produce less recruits- than if we attempted to apply a cast-iron formula to compel our people to lend? Nobody is better qualified than the British trade unionist to know what is at stake, for a victory of Hitler means the end of trade unionism. Nobody has better reason than we who enjoy freedom to be willing to pay the full price necessary to preserve...
Throughout the world some 300,000,000 people every week hear symphonic music in the movies, whether they know it or not. Mostly they do not know it: Hollywood believes that music should be pure background. The European approach is different: its cinema music is supposed to compel the hearer's attention, to comment on the action of the film, to say things the characters leave unsaid. Briton Arthur Bliss's score for H. G. Wells's Things To Come has had concert performances (TIME, July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed...
...recent months Sir John has moved adroitly to compel British investors to lend to the Exchequer eagerly and cheaply. Restrictions were imposed against new private and municipal bond issues, thus leaving the British bond buyer hungry. Last month His Majesty's Government requisitioned a list of 60 gilt-edged U. S. securities held by residents of the United Kingdom (TIME, March 4). Last week the Britons from whom these dollar securities were taken received first payment for them from the Treasury in pounds. They no sooner had these pounds in hand than Sir John popped up in the House...
...original barrage, Nazi planes have obliged the sweepers to keep up their interminable precautionary labor. By attacking the sweepers with bombs and machine guns, and also attacking fishing boats (eyes for the fleet) and lightships, Nazi planes forced Britain to establish further naval and aerial coast patrols, may eventually compel Britain to arm even her fishing smacks. In all these ways the Nazi air fleet with little difficulty has put Great Britain to great trouble, expense and danger. A little German effort has forced Britain to much greater efforts just to keep afloat...