Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Atwell made his decision, explained Judge Rives, he thought that he was complying with a mandate issued by the appellate court. He was mistaken; the mandate did not necessarily compel immediate full-scale integration. It simply prohibited the barring of individual pupils from any particular school because of race. But even this limited kind of integration should not be put into practice until responsible school authorities, acting in good faith, feel that local conditions permit...
...moral qualities of radio, television and films. Comparable to the U.S.'s National Legion of Decency, which evaluates only films,* the committees will be guided by the Pontifical Commission for Movies, Radio and Television. Vatican officials say the committees will screen news broadcasts, drama and other entertainment and "compel decent programs" by expressing "forcefully" to broadcasters the public's disapproval of "ether indecency...
...epidemic which may strike 15 million to 30 million people. The disease is relatively mild (in no way comparable to the killing "Spanish flu" of 1918-19), and is likely to cause only a small number of deaths among the feeble young and enfeebled old. But it may compel 10% to 20% of the population in affected areas to take to their beds at the same time, thus cripple essential services...
...records, accounts, business files, public files . . . Witnesses have declined to answer questions from time to time. The chief reason advanced has been that the testimony related to purely private affairs. In each instance with which I am familiar, the House and Senate have steadfastly adhered to their right to compel reply, and the witness has either answered or been imprisoned...
Stronger Compulsion. "Any attempt to compel us to accept a miscarriage of justice and a system of discrimination," rasped Israel's shock-haired lawgiver, "will meet with our unflinching opposition." President Eisenhower's first message, said B-G, "placed me under great moral pressure, for I was keenly conscious of the personality and the standing of the writer. And if I was compelled to reply as I did, I did so only under a still stronger compulsion: the pressure of my conscience as a man and a Jew, the pressure of the justice for which my people were...