Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many times," he shuddered in a nationwide television address, "have I had to seat women whom I received at audiences next to me, rather than facing me, in order to avoid general embarrassment? Nothing should compel us to suffer such trials. It puts the nerves of men and the modesty of women to a severe test...
...length and future costliness. They do not take too seriously the Administration's belief that North Vietnamese rationality will sooner or later open Hanoi's eyes to the impossibility of victory. They see a long, grubby, slogging war ahead of them, and their professional responsibilities compel them to assess realistically both the enemy's strength and their own needs. Few of them think that the job can be done with much less than double the present American force, and some indeed feel that the American buildup must reach 750,000 -though the Pentagon says that it does...
...Arnold Arboretum suit--brought eight years ago to compel the University to return 57,000 books and 600,000 plant specimens to Jamaica Plain--is argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Timothy Leary, making his first public appearance here in two-and-one-half-years, says that he is beginning to understand the simplest means "by which an individual can be induced to get out beyond his mind." Henry A. Kissinger goes to Vietnam...
While the Selective Service System may need some refinements in social, fiscal or academic terms, it would make little sense to compel tomorrow's doctors, scientists and industrial captains to spend prime years in menial Government service. Despite the immediate inequity of deferring college men ahead of others, in one way or another the U.S. has always placed a comparable premium on achievement and excellence...
...toward him. Secular man may be anxious, but he is also convinced that anxiety can be explained away. As always, faith is something of an irrational leap in the dark, a gift of God. And unlike in earlier centuries, there is no way today for churches to threaten or compel men to face that leap; after Dachau's mass sadism and Hiroshima's instant death, there are all too many real possibilities of hell on earth...