Word: duress
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...tried to talk to him about the duress under which he had agreed to write his statement -- the four months of separation, the isolation, the force- feeding. But he said he didn't see anything wrong with his statement. He really didn't want to deal with social issues any more because he didn't have the strength for them. He felt sick, tired, and all he wanted was to do scientific work and be with...
Mireya Navarro, 29, a California journalist, reports that her relationship with an "Anglo from Berkeley" used to undergo social duress and some physical stress when the couple hit the dance floor. Then the merengue craze blew in from back East. "I tell him, 'All you have to do is march and move your hips,' " Navarro says. "If there's one dance that Anglos can get into, merengue is it." In New York City, merengue is footing aside other variations of Latin dance music and is busting out of the Spanish clubs into slicker venues. Mayor Edward Koch showed...
...They play a tempo-type game, create turnovers, try to make people play under duress," Harvard Coach Pete Roby said after the contest...
...should this second alternative falter in times of economic duress, or merely because it has fallen out of fashion, a conservative government could say that social service is the public's responsibility and that clearly the electorate has lost interest. One of the functions of a government is to draw on that part of us which identifies with society as a whole. In our fiercely individualistic culture we do not need a government which encourages us to alienate ourselves from the rest of the country...
...chose to, the Queen, now 59, could abdicate at any time in favor of her 37-year-old son. But the only time in English history that any such parent-child transfer occurred was under duress: in 1327 rebellious nobles compelled the effete Edward II to hand on his crown to his young son, who became Edward III. The four other English abdications were also under pressure. Richard II and Henry VI were forced out by political rivals during the Wars of the Roses; James II was expelled in 1688 because he had converted to Roman Catholicism; and Edward VIII...