Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When fully explored and analyzed, De Lumley's discovery may compel a drastic reassessment of the social organization and civilization of pre-Neanderthal man in Europe. Until now, working with the meager data available, scientists have been convinced that, unlike the men who inhabited the Riviera site, the creatures of the Second Interglacial Period lived in the open or sought shelter in caves. They were clearly far more civilized than that...
...majority decision, by Kennedy Appointees Griffin Bell and Lewis Morgan, held that Tuttle's dissent was too restrictive on the lawmakers, since there is nothing in the Georgia constitution to compel the house to seat a member "if a reasonable basis . . . exists for the denial." Bond's endorsement of the strident antiwar policy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, said the two judges, is such a reasonable basis...
...impulses, which I fully share, than of solid constitutional thinking," he said in dissent. He argued that the "public function" of privately established schools and privately established parks is clearly similar. If the majority thought that its decision left "unaffected the traditional view that the 14th Amendment does not compel private schools to adapt their admission policies to its requirements," said Harlan, he did not agree. He found it difficult "to avoid the conclusion that this decision opens the door to reversal of these basic constitutional concepts. The example of schools is, I think, sufficient to indicate the pervasive potentialities...
...weeks ago the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee issued a statement denouncing as aggression United States action in Vietnam. It expressed sympathy for those "unwilling to respond to a military draft which would compel them to contribute their lives . . . in the name of the 'freedom' we find so false in this country." When asked by newsmen if he supported the statement, Julian Bond, 26-year-old press secretary for SNCC, said he did. In response to further questioning Bond said that he admired the courage of those who burn their draft cards, but that he would not burn...
...more militant ones, however, thought that the move which would compel off-campus residents to eat in the dorms, reflected an official plot against the joys of off-campus living...