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...Democracy," warned Premier Alcide de Gasperi before the packed Chamber of Deputies, "will be defended at all costs to compel respect for free institutions and prevent violence...
...Making OEEC, now mainly an advisory body, ECA's chosen instrument of integration, with clear responsibilities and enough political weight to compel member nations to abide by its decisions. One important step toward this goal: appointment of a strong OEEC secretary (possible candidates: Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, now ambassador to the U.S., and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, first President of the Assembly of the Council of Europe...
...houses in Pasco that the Columbia Construction Co. had sold to veterans. A group of tenants led by disabled Lloyd Kestin, a Pasco schoolteacher, had refused to sign their mortgages, claiming they had found building defects. While the Tri-City Herald investigated, the builder sued Kestin to compel him to sign. Next day, the Herald broke a series of stories supporting the veterans' charges...
...Unless somebody does or says something horribly mean to me," wrote Lafcadio Hearn to a friend, "I can't do certain kinds of work-the tiresome kinds, that compel a great deal of thinking...
...code could not violate the Constitution, wrote Mayer, because it does not compel any signatory nation to limit freedom of expression in any way whatever...