Word: impelling
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Problem Personified. But the threat of chaos and Communism over Europe would impel Washington to act. This week, President Truman indicated that he would ask Congress for $580 million in stopgap help for France and Italy...
...business of public education to secure adherence to any particular religious system. . . . But we believe it is the business of public education to impel the young toward a vigorous, decisive personal reaction to the challenge of religion. . . . A first step is to break through the wall of ignorance about religion and to increase the number of contacts with...
...this thing was to let the four voices of the gospelers tell the story in their own words.* That way, by a frequent shift of voices, dramatic interest could be kept up, and the broadest sense of the witness could be conveyed." To connect, extend and impel the tragedy, he added the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...
...Allied attack on the Lowlands or the French submarine coast from Brest to the south. The Germans themselves might take the great gamble of trying to knock Britain out. Success would not win the war for Germany (there would still be Russia), but the same sort of reasoning which impelled Hitler to turn on his Russian rear in 1941 might impel him to turn on his British rear...
...some other country, the Loyalist Government made the first step. It issued to the refugees a printed form asking: "What do you want to do? Remain in France? Have you means to do so? Work in America, [South and Central] in your profession? Return to [Insurgent) Spain? What motives impel you to adopt this decision?" Officials of the Loyalist Ministry of State declared that their Government intends to see this resettlement project through to the end, even if it means paying the expenses of those refugees who choose to go to Mexico or South America...