Word: coercion
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...current events are considered equally important with factual scientific training, I can only answer that I wish they were. In deciding grades, and who shall continue on in the course, intelligence and the student's aptitude in the "factual scientific work" are the only considerations. There is absolutely no coercion brought to bear on the student with regard to his personal opinions concerning our different current events. This is what our "fellow-traveler" of the A.S.U. calls un-American and un-democratic teaching--condemnation of "reds" and others who advocate the overthrow of our American and democratic ideals...
This India of ours is being dragooned into war against the will of the vast majority of her citizens. Failure to protest against this coercion would brand us as false prophets." This manifesto obviously broke the four missionaries' pledges. Mindful of their church's stake, India's U. S. Methodist bishops straightway got their Board of Foreign Missions in Manhattan to authorize the homecoming of Missionaries < Smith and Keene-who obediently went home...
...Chicago he hit out again: . . . shame of the New Deal . . . shameless corruption behind the smiling visage . . . crimes of intimidation and coercion . . . larceny, extortion, vicious practices . . . lowest form of political life . . . vested interest in human misery...
...thesis is the superiority of peaceful methods over violence. Into a wide open town, with its typical saloon characters, comes James Stewart, or Thomas Jefferson Destry, whose father was killed in the course of sherifling a similar frontier town. He believes in law and order, but not in coercion: and "no-gun Destry," as the hombres come to call him, talks the crooks into prison and the town into somnolence. His adventures, except for a few moments of sentimental seriousness, constitute a picture which must certainly come close to exhausting the possibilities of satirical slapstick comedy...
...rabbi, in opposing the Christmas-Jew, may be opposing not him but a vast tide of psychic coercion, a veritable Zeitgeist, that flows through him and that renders all pleading and thundering . . . futile...