Word: duress
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...Lebanon to spy for the CIA. After his release last week, Glass said he had spoken ungrammatically in the tape, feigned a Southern accent (to indicate that he was in southern Lebanon), and crossed his fingers in the hope of indicating to viewers that he was acting under duress...
Close Quarters is more than the education, under duress, of its narrator. The novel is a vivid historical reconstruction of what it once felt like to set off for the other end of the earth relying on nothing but the mercies of wind and sea. This experience is an archetype of Western literature (Genesis, The Odyssey), fraught with several millenniums of encrusted expectations. For the most part, Golding is content to let the symbolic dimensions of his tale remain implicit. "What a world a ship is! A universe!" Talbot exclaims at one point, but the energy he might have devoted...
...adjustments that Blair had to make on the ice were made under more duress. Harvard's four-year netminder had a shaky first season for the Golden Eagles, appearing in 25 games, winning seven and losing 14 in the regular season...
...people in love, or of an artist to his work. Their creation--and that of the artist--is more a part of them than the child the surrogate mother produces of her. Their attachment is more fundamentally "human" than the attachment of a woman who only endures the duress of carrying a child for money. Mary Beth Whitehead, like scores of surrogate mothers before her, did not consider creating a baby until some man and woman made it worth her while...
...employee for each 140 clients allows it to meet high performance standards, like routinely answering all customer mail within a day of receipt. Amica tries to respond to claims in the same speedy manner. The company's adjusters have been known to take extraordinary pains to assist clients in duress. After Hurricane Gloria hit the New England coast in 1985, one Amica homeowner policyholder was unable to get any government agency to remove a ten-ton tree that had fallen onto her house. When she called Amica for help, an adjuster came out and made arrangements the same...