Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less than two years ago, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller submitted a bill that would compel homeowners to build their own fallout shelters; he got bluntly turned down by his G.O.P.-dominated legislature. But times change -and last week, less than six hours after convening for a special, two-day session, the state legislature overwhelmingly approved a program that will help provide shelters for the 4,100,000 persons connected with New York's schools, colleges and institutions. New York thereby took on the largest civil defense effort of any state in the nation...
...ever ascertain "clear compulsion" for either choice in a situation with the ramifications of atmospheric testing. Substantial right-wing pressure, though, may well compel Kennedy to resume tests. Such a development would be tragic, for the arguments of the politicians are as scientifically shallow as they are morally infantile. Vigilant Mr. Rockefeller has been exceedingly irresponsible...
...person who submits to such resignations will ask himself: "Do not the sterile efforts of so many philosophers prove that their search is in vain; that either it is meaningless, or else it is impossible to reach a solution that can compel universal recognition...
...emotional ban-the-bombers suffered less schizophrenia about who was to blame, though the illusion of moral influence still persisted in spots: the conservative Nihon Keizai Shimbun wistfully editorialized that "our fondest hope is for the U.S. to reconsider its decision on resumption, and by so doing compel Russia to follow suit." But even Zengakuren, the extreme leftist student organization whose screaming mobs forced President Eisenhower to cancel his trip to Japan a year ago, turned about and labeled the Russian decision "Stalinist power diplomacy," and began gathering a nationwide petition of protest signatures to deliver to the Russian embassy...
...both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. But Kennedy won his way to the White House by such a perilous plurality (118,000 votes out of a national total of 68 million) that he could in no sense be considered to have a mandate that might compel Congressmen to go along with him. Indeed, many winning Democratic Representatives and Senators who led Kennedy on the ticket within their own constituencies, could reasonably decide that they knew better than the young President about what was good for the people...