Word: duress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position on this controversial issue ought not to be misconstrued as sour grapes. Even if DiCara agrees to take the title from Tarnas and give it to Barton, I would still be only third. Of course. I was under duress after the harassment I had suffered in the days leading up to the contest. The night before sitting down to the table, Barton and his nefarious trainer, Mcltzoff, had snatched me from my very bed at 2 a.m. and raped me. It is my understanding that even Dean May doesn't have to put up with such tactics...
...Last year the tactics of a belligerent minority led the faculty to vote, under duress, to eliminate ROTC at Harvard. That vote should be reconsidered." the VAF statement said. "Individuals should have the opportunity and the right to choose whether or not participation in ROTC is moral and advantageous...
...column says that last Spring's decision to set up an Afro-American Studies department was "a hasty agreement under pressure" and "a victory for black militants more complete than was accomplished at Columbia or Berkeley, where administrators were under greater duress...
...order has now become of paramount importance to the university because of the emergence of that minority on campus who seek to replace reason with power," said the report. Should there ever be a repetition of last spring's troubles, they warned, "the university must not negotiate under duress. There must be no amnesty for infractions of the student conduct code...
...Establishment, under duress...