Word: duress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Daily Lesson. So far, Rome's response has been gentle. Having no lines of communication with its captive flock in China, Vatican officials explain, the church cannot distinguish clearly between Chinese priests forced to collaborate under extreme duress and those who merely succumb to ambition...
...father of the white boy cooled down, signed a paper saying that Minnie Lee Baskin had meant no harm. Appealing to the State Board of Education for reinstatement, Teacher Baskin said that she had resigned under duress. But when the board put off its hearing because it had not received the proper papers, knowing Lakelanders smiled cynically...
Last week she reconsidered, insisted that her resignation "is illegal because it was under duress." But no one around town really thinks that Schoolmistress Baskin will ever teach in Lakeland again. "What is my crime?" she once demanded of a school-board member. "Not a thing," said that worthy, "except you put a white boy on a nigger bus, and a lot of folks don't like...
...fact, the disgust aroused by certain methods used now alienates the majority of those who under abuse or duress at one time supported the rebellion. Every passing day confirms this. Practically all over Algeria, life has returned to normalcy. Last June more than 100 victims of terror fell in Algiers; no attacks occurred in September, and but one in October. Everywhere, in the country as well as the cities, people are at work; cars travel on the roads; and-this detail is important for a country which we are supposed to believe is in the throes of an insurrection-takes...
...after sustaining a drastically reduced income, a company would go before the U.A.W. or before a three-man panel to attempt to justify its need for partial relief." Henry Ford II: "The rapid increases in wages of automobile workers over the past ten years, which were negotiated under the duress of your demands, have unquestionably contributed to inflation. Thus, having poured gasoline on the fires . . . you now stand by and tell us how to fight the blaze. In return, you say you will consider using less gasoline next time-or maybe only kerosene...