Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, theses and divisionals will probably keep most Seniors from accepting the post. Already Ray A. Goldberg '48, treasurer of the Council and considered by many a likely successor to the presidency, has declared that his studies and other extra-curricular activities would compel him to refuse nomination to the post...
...driven to the philosophy of despair-the philosophy which contends that their basic wants can be met only by the surrender of their basic rights to totalitarian control. Such a turn of events would constitute a shattering blow to peace and stability in the world. It might well compel us to modify our own economic system and to forgo, for the sake of our own security, the enjoyment of many of our freedoms and privileges...
...conferees also did some worrying about the hazards of atomic explosions (i.e., bombs). An atomic explosion that contaminated a city's water supply, warns Dr. E. G. Williams of the U.S. Public Health Service, would compel complete evacuation of the city for months, years or perhaps permanently. Scientists can only guess at how widely the effects of such a catastrophe might spread. Would the radioactive water be sucked up by roots and contaminate food plants ? Would the poison be passed on to successive plant generations by radioactive seeds...
Complicating both economic and political crises was the crisis of socialism highlighted by the plight of the British Labor Party. How could a government ruling in the name of the working class compel workers to work? How could a minority of the nation force the whole nation to accept the regimentation inseparable from planning? Communists, realistic and ruthless, had answered: by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which in reality meant the dictatorship of the secret police. Socialists, well-intentioned and opportunistic, had evaded this problem in theory; now, in practice, history had brought them face to face with...
...will be shocked. . . . The Government has not so much credit left in the world that it can afford to squander it in acts of unpremeditated folly." Added the News Chronicle: "British conduct ... is moving rapidly to the ultimate stage of lunacy. . . . No one but a fool would try to compel a Jew to go to Germany of all countries...