Word: duress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their own high-booted Jewish police, the councils compiled death lists of Jews and rounded up their own people for deportation to Nazi extermination camps. Refusal to help Eichmann's "transportation" experts would have meant immediate death, but always there was the agonizing moral dilemma: even under duress, was cooperation not betrayal? Last week Israeli Prosecutor David Libai gave the state's answer in the first trial of a Jewish policeman who served the Nazis. Its answer...
...three sone with Scully, Augustine, and AI Bornheimer alternating out front, the Crimson consistently pilfered Dartmouth passes and bottled up Spahn, who led the league in scoring last season. When he was able to get off one of his notorious 30 foot bombs Spahn was usually under duress. In addition to waving hands the Dartmouth shooters were also subjected to the constant chirping of Augustine as he covered his area of the sone...
Electra. Wide-ruling Agamemnon, home from Troy triumphant, straightway is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. who usurps dominion of Mycenae. Agamemnon's son Orestes is spirited to safety by his tutor, but the dead king's daughter Electra is held in duress till she comes of age, and then is wed precautiously to a poor farmer-the sons of such a man, Aegisthus reasons, cannot hope to occupy a throne, and therefore would not dare to kill him. Vain precautions. Orestes returns secretly and at Electra's furious insistence, slaughters the usurper...
...home, Van Looy is all work: before dawn each morning, he struggles out of bed, climbs on his bike and does his "daily 50"-a 50-kilometer grind over the quiet roads around Herentals. He has little time for friends, even less for his fans. He smiles only under duress, refuses to sign autographs, pose for pictures or answer questions before a race. His vocation has deformed his body, leaving him with a bony chest and shoulders, arms that are stumpy and weak. He runs only with difficulty, and he cannot even walk very far without agonizing cramps...
...government: legislative bodies and their subsidiary committees largely duplicated each other's activities. Its members talked, they knit, they collected dues, and even on occasion passed a law. All this they did subject to the approval of a benevolent Administration with which they managed to communicate only after its duress became fact...