Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train clerks and shopgirls as welders and machinists, and send them where they are most urgently needed. It must assure adequate farm labor to produce the food necessary for maintaining our own civilian and armed forces as well as those of out allies. Finally, it must stand ready to compel any worker to abandon a non-essential job for an essential one, regardless of the sacrifices involved...
...committeemen reeled for an hour under the impact of Paul's 33-page document, then recovered to deliver body blows of their own. Harry Byrd called the proposal the "most complicated and unworkable plan" the Treasury had submitted in nine years: "It would compel taxpayers to pay more taxes than they have income." Bob La Follette termed its provisions "heresy" and "a hell of a note." To Joe Guffey the scheme was stillborn. It "staggered" Colorado Ed Johnson's imagination. Puddler Jim Davis threw up his hands: "It is too complicated for an ordinary man like...
...seizure of a few airdromes, the quick delivery of enough land-based fighters to hold the air over northern Norway while troops tried to secure a real hold. If successful, the Allies could then break Germany's air grip on the convoy route to Murmansk and Archangel, perhaps compel a major German diversion from Russia's northern fronts. If they failed-and the odds against final success would be great -they might still upset the Nazis enough to increase the chances of success along the invasion coast nearer Britain...
...Threat. The core of the Congress resolution demanded that Britain withdraw politically from India, and threatened to use all the possible nonviolence of the people to compel Britain to withdraw. The resolution did not alter Gandhi's position that he does not wish to interfere with United Nations military forces in India (TIME, July 13). But Jawaharlal Nehru explained that nonviolence envisaged more than industrial strikes-it would be a general strike, peaceful rebellion. Nehru's thesis was simple: only Indians could organize India for war, because anybody could do anything better than the Government of India today...
Near Leningrad the news was equally bad for Russia. Berlin and Moscow communiqués, conflicting in detail, made one fact all too clear: Field Marshal Georg von Keuchler had smashed a Russian effort to drive a deep salient into the Nazi forces around the city, to compel them eventually to lift their siege. Berlin said that the Germans had destroyed the Russians' Second Shock Army; Moscow declared that the army was saved, admitted in effect that its effort to relieve Leningrad and forestall a summer offensive in the north had failed...