Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Barras' mine. Serious, stubborn, long-faced, intelligent, David won a scholarship, was the first of his family to escape Sleescale, where deep and ancient mines reached out under the sea. His father, who knew that the cutting was dangerous, had led an unsuccessful strike in an effort to compel the adoption of precautionary measures. The most remarkable incident in The Stars Look Down, and a powerful piece of writing in its own right, is Dr. Cronin's account of the flooding of the mine, the death of Father Fenwick and one of his sons who are trapped...
...Condé detested him for his democratic affectations, which included carrying a humble and unnecessary umbrella. Irresolute as he was, the Prince was determined never to leave his wealth to a son of Louis Philippe. Louis then agreed to get Sophie restored to royal favor if she would compel Prince de Condé to make the will he desired. Thus the great struggle began...
...Representative O'Connor's investigation of lobbying for and against the Public Utility Bill was the aftermath of a House revolt at Administration pressure on Representatives to compel them to accept the "death sentence" clause for holding companies. Senator Black's investigation of the same thing was sponsored by friends of the "death sentence" who sought so to discredit the utilities in the headlines that the House would have to reverse its position on the "death sentence...
...scoffs at the typical test for an operator's license, in which a bored policeman rides slowly around the block with the candidate, who meets no emergency and performs nothing more difficult than turning around in a dead-end street or backing into a parking space. Laboratory tests would compel the candidate to demonstrate ability to cope with all sorts of situations, would eliminate as factors the strictness or leniency of the examining officer. Finally, Dr. DeSilva urges that laboratory equipment helps beginners learn in safety and provides them with accurate progress reports...
...Moscow accepted with stoicism last week the revelation that in their Soviet midst a total of 1,667 Capitalist landlords have survived to harass the proletariat with extortionate rents. According to the Government Press, which professed itself scandalized, one Moscow landlady is now suing before a Red court to compel a proletarian family to pay her a bonus of 5,000 rubles for the privilege of not being evicted. When the suit appeared to be dragging on. Moscow's meanest landlady got herself a cartwhip, cracked it ominously in the presence of her lodgers and screamed: "Comrade, unless...