Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protestant churchmen were outraged. When police refused to take the boxes from his church, Canon Walter Simpson of St. Bartholomew's cried: "The law was invoked to compel me to submit to treatment which was an offense to my conscience as a citizen and a Christian priest." Costello's boxes gleaned about ?51,000, but the collection so outraged the Orangemen that they poured out to the polls as never before. Dublin's Protestant Irish Times crowed that Costello's collection was worth 60,000 votes for the Unionists in the resentful North...
...Orthodox who are loyal citizens of a Communist state. In Poland there are convinced Communists who regularly attend Mass. In Czechoslovakia among the members of some of the Reformed Churches there are to be found convinced Communists . . . The Church therefore should avoid an indiscriminate condemnation of Communism, which would compel many, especially of the younger generation, to feel that they must choose between Christianity and Communism...
Education. "I agree with Nicholas Butler that America is the best half-educated country in the world. But happily, the American people are fond of learning. Their curiosity and interest compel them to study beyond their time of childhood. These polite, happy people-almost infantile in their simplicity and sincerity-are assimilating little by little the whole of European civilization...
Hart Crane's mother (he was the only child) divorced her husband, had a nervous breakdown, became an ardent Christian Scientist, exhausted herself working in an antique shop, tried unsuccessfully to compel her son to go to college. His friends were the few emancipated spirits who congregated around Herbert Fletcher's bookshop in Akron, and later the New York and expatriate intellectuals who contributed to the little magazines...
...never compel a man to do good," he concluded...