Word: compels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such an injunction would compel Nixon to appoint a national advisory council to supervise implementation of the Indian Education...
...reasons given in yesterday's editorial for a bill to compel testimony before Congressional committees was that: 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...
Esoteric works, Prague linguistics, the letters of Alban Berg, and forgotten masterpieces like Baudelaire's Pauvre Belgique are elevated to the level on indispensable texts; like letters discovered several decades after their author's death, which then prompt a revision of his life and work these documents compel the reader to reevaluate his library and his notebook, those two vessels of humane learning. In time, he realizes that what he has collected represents no more than a mere portion of what there is, and resolves to devote his labors to the subjective, to whatever mirrors and enhances his own suspicions...
Carved Toggles. Often in the West, miniatures compel the worthless gawking one reserves for Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peach-stone kitsch. Not in Japan, where the image and the scale were one-partly by a happy fluke of social pressure. The Imperial sumptuary laws forbade merchants and samurai to wear excessively rich garments, so male vanity expressed itself in three special kinds of objects: inros, the tiny compartmented cases for carrying seals, or later medicine; netsukes, the carved toggles that fastened the inros to one's sash; and tsubas, or sword guards. The amount of craft lavished...
Gravel, through Rodberg, negotiated the publication of the papers with Beacon Press. The government had tried to compel Rodberg's testimony concerning how Gravel obtained a copy of the papers. When Gravel argued for Rodberg's immunity from subpoena. The ensuing legal light caused the probe to be suspended...