Word: duress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duress Occasion. In London. Robert McNally was able to get his marriage annulled after testifying that his beloved had grabbed his best shirt and soaked it in a bathtub until he promised to go through with the wedding...
...earned close to $400,000 in royalties from the drug, last week acknowledged that his former laboratory assistant Albert Schatz is "entitled to credit legally and scientifically as co-discoverer of streptomycin." Earnest young (30) Dr. Schatz in turn retracted his charge that Waksman had practiced "fraud and duress" in depriving him of a share in its profits...
...Still at large in New Zealand last week was Convict Cecil Gurr Otto who also escaped duress by walking out of a hospital. Two years ago Otto had murdered a woman, and in remorse tried to commit suicide. He succeeded only in blowing half his face away. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, Otto was sent to a hospital near Christchurch for plastic surgery. Authorities put him on his honor not to escape. Last fortnight, equipped with new, nearly healed features, he simply walked out of the hospital. New Zealand police admitted that recapture would be difficult. The only...
Wryly, publishers called the move "self-imposed, under duress." They were forced to it by a crisis of the Labor Government's own making. While the Government had gone on exporting 75,000 tons of British newsprint this year to Australia (whose newspapers run as high as 48 pages), it had choked off almost all Canadian newsprint imports to save $7,-500,000 in Canadian credits. Scandinavian suppliers, quick to take advantage of the shortage created by the Canadian embargo, had boosted prices to Britain in 10 months from ?30 to ?35 a ton. Higher prices alone, warned...
...Official Army sources have now identified "Seoul City Sue" as Mrs. Ann Wallace Suhr, a former American Methodist missionary teacher, who left the mission in the 1930s to marry a Korean leftist. Missionary ex-colleagues believe that Mrs. Suhr broadcasts "under duress" and is "trying to save the life of her husband, and probably her own as well, by broadcasting for the Communists...