Word: duress
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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...
...trial begins on the highest moral and forensic planes with a charge that Germany's judges, under political duress, destroyed the heritage of law that they were sworn to defend. But in short order the script stoops to conquer the attention with a long, clinically detailed and (for all legal and dramatic purposes) pointless discussion of sexual sterilization in the Third Reich. Next comes the prurient account of an episode in which an elderly Jew, accused of committing Rassenschande (race shame) with a 16-year-old "Aryan'' girl, is legally murdered by a German judge. Finally...
...pledges to merge Katanga with the rest of the Congo; as Moise left for home, he embraced his old enemies, showered them with compliments. But once he was back in the safety of Katanga, crafty Tshombe changed his tune. The agreement signed in Leopoldville was forced from him under duress, he sneered. Last week Tshombe's regime declared that Katanga would not give up its own separate currency or its army, nor would it join a customs union with the rest of the Congo. Above all, Katanga's Moise Tshombe would not be sending any delegates...