Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These players are provided with "certain monies which we construe only to be out-of-pocket expenses in connection with the fact that we compel, of necessity, practices after school and also on Saturdays and holidays," says A. J. Anderson, general manager of the Edmonton Junior team," [monies] which insofar as we were concerned were an assistance to [the player] in completing his schooling and in defraying some of his room and board expenses...
...open club could prove immensely attractive to the developing countries," Brandt said, and could give the West the initiative at an International trade conference. He predicted that the forces of economic well-being let in motion by such a club would be the most effective way to "compel the communists to accommodate themselves to an entirely new meaning of co-existence...
...Ireland: Good old Ireland! I have tried to hold up the flag for Ireland. I introduced a resolution to try to memorialize the whole wide world, if that could be done, to compel Great Britain to give to Ireland her undivided freedom. That is the way I feel. I take my freedom straight. I am like little Johnny. His teacher asked him. "How do you spell straight?" He said. "S-T-R-A-I-G-H-T." The teacher then asked. "What does it mean?" He said. "Without ginger ale." That is the way I take my freedom. I take...
Most of the little talks that President Kennedy makes to visiting White House groups-exchange teachers, clubwomen, South Dakota Indians-are about as inspired as the occasions that compel them...
Sudden Retirement. Though the U.S. is trying to compel Duvalier to mend his ways, Haiti's intransigent tyrant was still showing a preference for his own gang instead of the army. The army's chief of staff, General Jean-René Boucicaut, worried for his own safety, fled with his wife and children to asylum in the Venezuelan embassy. Swearing in a replacement, his fifth army boss in as many years, "Papa Doc," as Duvalier likes to be called, blandly announced that the 44-year-old Boucicaut had reached "the age of retirement...