Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in the 14th century courtroom of nearby Arezzo, Subbiano's Mayor Cerofolino was tried behind closed doors, found guilty of blackmail, coercion and moral turpitude, and sentenced to two years at hard labor and the loss of his civil rights for 20 years. "None of this," growled ex-Mayor Cerofolino, "would have happened if Nofri had stayed in the party." That night the Communist Party at Subbiano, which had prepared a riotous welcome home for Mayor Cerofolino, went on a rampage around town instead, and stormed the house of the Nofri family. A special squad of carabinieri...
...plot has something to do with Mitchum's search into the past of his late employer who, it appears, was a big-moola blackmailer. Mitchum chases (and is chased) all over Europe before he even digs up this sore-thumb fact, while the blackmail victims-quislings who never quisled because Hitler never got around to invading their countries-earnestly try to bump Mitchum off their vile, traitorous scent. In all, Foreign Intrigue rates as the murkiest black-and-white color film of the year, lacking only a chase through sewers to lend it a more poignant aroma...
...Nasser had already pledged his country's cotton crop for years to come to pay for his Communist arms. Moscow last week made it plain that it was not willing to finance the dam, even though it had let Nasser blackmail the West with the threat of a Soviet counteroffer. Now Nasser stood exposed. Even his brother Arabs privately agreed that he had asked for the trouble he was in. All this was vexing to 38-year-old Gamal Abdel Nasser, who is a proud...
...Germany's "two sovereign states," Bonn feared he was about to recognize the puppet East German regime. Despite private assurances that Tito would not do so, the Adenauer government last week pointedly allowed West Germany's Bundestag to adjourn for the summer without ratifying the Yugoslav treaty. "Blackmail," cried Yugoslavia's Politika, but West Germany is prepared to wait until Tito's assurances sound as loud and clear as his original remarks in Moscow's Dynamo Stadium...
George and Green were persuasive spokesmen, and from the opposition party. Behind the scenes the Administration was driven to a measure that smacked of blackmail to try to bring its rebellious Republicans into line. From office to office on Capitol Hill went White House aides making the point that the President was again facing a decision whether to run for reelection. If his own Republicans in Congress refused to support him on foreign aid, the argument went, the President would be most discouraged. The implication: if you want Ike, and want to ride his coattails, vote for the foreign...