Word: duress
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...House Committee, under duress, did its part. After tabling the plan for further consideration, it finally appropriated seven dollars to carry...
...turned the pages in the looseleaf notebook before him. The department took a "serious view," he said, of the "flimsy pretext used by the local authorities" to prevent the homecoming of General Robert B. Soule, the U.S. military attache. "The U.S. Government does not countenance negotiations under duress and will not authorize its representatives in China to submit to such pressure...
...chance to harass the West with turmoil and terror in Greece and to win a great Mediterranean base for communism. The obedient satellites on Greece's north provided arms and other material aid, sanctuary for hard-pressed guerrillas, hospitals, training bases. Whether they fought voluntarily or under duress, the guerrilla soldiers were Greeks. For Russia it was a cheap try for big stakes. In March 1946, the guerrillas had only 2,500 soldiers. Two years later they had upwards...
...with Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Dulles, Dewey issued a formal statement that carried the weight of G.O.P. policy. Said he: "The present duty of Americans is not to be divided by past lapses, but to unite to surmount present dangers ... In Berlin, we must not surrender our rights under duress...
Defense Attorney Tom Wofford objected strenuously. The statements, he claimed, might be legal evidence against their individual makers, but not against other defendants. The statements had not been made under oath; the defense charged that they had been obtained under duress...