Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent disaster at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta [TIME, Dec. 16], when fire took the lives of 122 people, will, I sincerely hope, cause a nationwide drive to compel every hotel in the land to place a coil of stout rope in each & every room...
...Senate as unrepresentative . . . opposition people's wishes and interest . . . merely House of Lords of the trusts. . . . Compel election of Senators by the people . . . make big editorials in all papers. . . ." Brisbane made big editorials; the result (eleven years later) was the 17th Amendment...
...forces now operating in American college education compel the repeal of the rule immediately. For at least two years Harvard will be over-crowded. The only foreseeable way to increase appreciably the number of available vacant rooms is for the University to allow all students who so desire to provide their own lodging while at College...
...What loose and wicked talk this is. . .Repetition of an inaccurate statement will not make it accurate. . . . Those who have insisted most loudly on unanimity here have . . . insisted upon [it] to compel a majority to yield to a minority which was unwilling on its part to make the concessions necessary to make a common understanding possible...
...With one eye on politics, Harry Truman singled out and named his villain of the piece: Ohio's Republican Senator Robert Alphonso Taft. It was Taft's amendment providing price increases for manufacturers based on profits in prosperous 1941 (plus subsequent costs), said the President, which would "compel thousands of needless price increases amounting to many billions of dollars." This, wrote the President, was the "mainspring" of "an impossible bill" that "provides a sure formula for inflation...