Word: coercion
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Safire dazzlingly demonstrated a technique that might be called innuendo by question mark. He asked rhetorically: "What deals were made in secrecy to buy testimony? What bribes of freedom were offered, what coercion used to elicit accusations that might be perjurious? What officials were harassed for daring to criticize? What collusion was there to time indictments to the impeachment process, as in Mr. Connally's indictment on the day the 'abuse of power' article of impeachment was voted upon...
...next fifty years he sees the key to continued chances for survival as the "relative resilience and adaptability of the two great socio-economic systems." In the long run, he calls for "the reconstruction of the material basis of civilization itself," aided by a new politics of coercion through an appeal to "human nature...
...precisely the impression Stratton was trying to convey in the photos. Having endured the most brutal kind of physical torture as well as 18 months in solitary, he acted doped, hoping the world would understand that his statement was coerced even if it misunderstood the method of coercion. The seemingly pitiable spectacle he made of himself was thus actually an extraordinarily effective act of resistance by a brave...
...Area's needy and aged that the S.L.A. had demanded. Then she stunned her family and friends by announcing that she had renounced them, joined her abductors, and adopted the name Tania, after the German-Argentine mistress of Latin American Revolutionary Che Guevara. Whether through conversion or coercion, she materialized last week in the role of a foul-mouthed bank robber. In the bewilderment shared by all who have followed the case, her anguished father Randolph A. Hearst exclaimed: "It's terrible! Sixty days ago, she was a lovely child. Now there's a picture of her in a bank...
...determine if and when the freedom of one becomes the oppression of another. For example, I would not oppose the censorship of cinema clearly promoting and advocating rape (I expect civil libertarian purists would take issue with me on this.). But cinema depicting sex practices which do not involve coercion belongs, in my viewpoint, in the category of expression of a minority view which does not curtail the freedom of others...