Word: duress
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...more than a little. During the 1965 Watts riots, five supermarkets of one chain, in bad odor with local residents, were burned to the ground, while three markets of another chain, which was considered fair, were spared. The chain grocers are now clearly in the spotlight and under duress to do better for the poor...
Within the School, both students and some faculty members are now trying to implement a sweeping reassessment of the School. On Saturday, the Board of Governors upheld the supensions of Adelstein and Bloom and stated that no discussions could take place "under duress." The students replied by refusing to abandon the demonstration; they opened a debate on whether to continue the sit-in during the Easter vacation and to establish a "free university" with faculty...
Short-story collections have such notoriously poor sales records that U.S. publishers bring them out under a kind of duress. Either they are anxious to get an option on the first novel of a promising new writer or they are even more anxious to keep a bestselling novelist or playwright happy...
Died. Pierre Taittinger, 77, mayor of Paris during the German occupation, scion of one of France's most illustrious champagne families, whose collaboration with the Nazis, though under duress, won him a short prison term and utter disgrace after the war, but was later credited with saving Paris from the destruction repeatedly ordered by Hitler as Allied armies advanced on the city; of uremic poisoning; in Paris...
...Bears are the dullest team in pro football- to anybody but a connoisseur of crunch. They hug the ground defiantly, pass only under duress, rank No. 8 in the fourteen-team N.F.L. m scoring (with 233 points) and No. 11 in total offense (with 3,329 yds.). That kind of football is hardly calculated to win friends and influence fans: last month, when the Bears beat the lowly Los Angeles Rams 6-0 on the strength of two field goals they played most of the second half to the accompaniment of home-town boos But the Bears make no excuses...