Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...denial in detail cannot but raise suspicions. Yet to conclude from his silence that he and his backers are guilty would be unfair. The Student Council, WHRB, and the CRIMSON have a clear duty to try to get his stand made public, but they have no authority to compel him, and if he chooses to keep silent, that is his privilege. We regret his silence, for he might have cleared matters up easily, but his right must be acknowledged...
...With that, LeRoy Collins got down to specifics that went remarkably far for a Southern governor. His central theme: great as is the court's power, it cannot "compel social adjustments," which can only emerge from changes in "the hearts and minds of people." The court itself, he declared, acknowledged this fact in its school decision by recognizing "to a degree local conditions and problems" and thus not making integration "compulsory." Thus "segregation in Florida schools . . . can be expected to prevail for the foreseeable future...
...blood bath in Eastern Europe but requires a return to one-man dictatorship in Russia, for it takes a Stalin to impose Stalinism. To go forward with liberalization risks the gradual dismemberment of the satellite empire. But in the end, the sins, fallacies and weaknesses of Soviet Communism may compel the Russians to take that risk, in order to save what they...
...West Germans would much rather stay home. They have business interests of their own to develop in the Arab Middle East and do not want to incur Arab hostility. In such an event they fear that Nasser's revenge might be to recognize Communist East Germany, which would compel Chancellor Adenauer to make good on his threat to break off relations with any nation that recognizes the East German government...
While the insurance industry argued, the Securities & Exchange Commission last week joined the fracas, seeking to compel the only company now selling the new annuities to the general public to register with the SEC. Three days later, top insurance men thronged a hearing room in the New Jersey state senate and wrangled over three bills which have already received state assembly approval to legalize sale of variable annuities by insurance companies in New Jersey...