Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lettering and was promptly arrested for defacing a license plate. Sure that he was standing on his rights, Objector McBohin, up for trial this week, roundly declared: "I'm prepared to appeal the case to the highest court." Indignantly he added: "Next thing you know the State will compel us to advertise someone's corn flakes." More serious to traffic experts was the fact that in order to get the "World's Fair" lettering on the new plates, license numbers had to be made 23% smaller than those of last year...
...hold a general election, and towering Statesman Titulescu stepped from his Wagon-Lit to declare: "In this hour of gravity I have had to return to my country to take part in portentous events. I am anxious to face my foes with restraint and courtesy. However, if they compel me to do so, I shall show them I can fight not only with the weapons of Geneva but with those of a gypsy encampment...
...spunky Christian wife, but she at last bitterly concluded that China is not going to be succored by any other government. Appealing over the heads of other governments to the world proletariat, desperate Mme Chiang last week affirmed: "The workers hold in their hands the power to compel observance of treaties, even if that power is relinquished by governments, and the resolve of Labor to uphold human rights is enshrined in the hearts of our people...
Although nobody except the "President, tutors, and professors" were allowed to use "threats and blows" to compel Freshmen to work, if a present Yardling were to be transported back two centuries in time he would hardly call his position a bed of roses...
...Walter Lippmann looks for social progress, "the enlargement of the middle class as against the poor and the rich." To him this is not a pious hope but a sober expectation, for he concludes that the economic law which Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini try to attack and impair will compel men to rediscover and to re-establish the essential principles of a liberal society . . . the renascence of liberalism may be regarded as assured...