Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe-Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East*-the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history . . . The adversaries of freedom did not create the revolution, nor did they create the conditions which compel it. But they are seeking to ride the crest of its wave-to capture it for themselves." Items in the President's speech...
Last week's production-four seasons old but still one of the handsomest spectacles the Met has to offer-was bolstered by a generally strong cast. But Soprano Price was the undisputed star. Throughout the long evening she demonstrated again her remarkable ability to compel an audience to belief through sheer beauty of tone; from the rage of Act I's Or sal chi I'onore to the tenderness of the second act's Non mi dir, she moved securely and with absolute conviction. Her two great arias stopped the opera cold...
...stories, perhaps even scoops. That is, I believe, a basically false conception of why it is worthwhile to have the President submit himself to questions from the press. The real use of the presidential press conference is to enable the President to explain his policies and, if necessary, to compel him to explain them." In this respect, added Columnist Lippmann, the Kennedy conference format has been a failure: "President Kennedy, with all his political genius, is not yet in full effective communication with the people...
Words & Consequences. In their new nervousness, U.S. investors have become extremely sensitive to any Latin American interference with private enterprise. Last year the Mexican government bought out the electric power and motion picture distribution industries. A month ago the Mexican Congress passed a law designed to compel the U.S. and British concerns that own most of Mexico's mines to sell control of their properties to Mexican interests within the next 25 years. Such moves help explain why new U.S. investment in Mexico was only $11 million in 1960 v. $14 million in 1959 and a whopping $80 million...
...coin or a bill in an offering box, then peered through a tiny glass window. Inside, on a hard mattress, lay Sant Fateh Singh, 50-year-old Sikh holy man. While doctors and disciples stood anxious watch, Sant Fateh Singh was carrying on a hunger strike. Its aim: to compel the Indian government to create a separate linguistic state in the Punjab, traditional home of the Sikhs...