Search Details

Word: impelled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...with oil? Can seasonal businesses or industries carry the GAW load? What if public taste veers away from goods produced by some outfit which has a GAW setup? Then, too, there is the fear, expressed by many who doubt the feasibility of GAW, that it will operate chiefly to impel employers to hire as few workers as they can. Certainly guaranteed annual wages for workers are fine, if feasible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

This blind and touching belief, and the rising expectations that impel it, have been seized upon by the Communists as a powerful lever of influence. From Moscow and Peking, Communism is held out as a short cut to material progress. Recently John Foster Dulles warned Americans that the Communists' "cruel system . . . does have a certain fascination for the peoples of underdeveloped countries who feel that their own economies are standing still." The danger is that those who compulsively hunger for economic advance will opt for the Communist alter native, if democracy's methods are too slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: NEW FRONT IN THE COLD WAR | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...read several of his own poems from a collection entitled "Chire, seventy-one poems." These represented different expressions of his main theme: what forces impel the artist to create. He compared the attitude of the artist to that of a lover toward his beloved, and a worshipper toward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cummings Traces Human Creativity Through Growth | 3/3/1953 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next