Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gabriel Gradėre has corrupted young girls, lived with a prostitute on her earnings, run a ring of brothels with her, trafficked in cocaine and blackmail, and is now, at 50, being blackmailed in turn by the prostitute Aline. After a childhood friend has given birth to his son, he marries her for her money though they abhor each other. When she dies, he squanders the fortune she has left him. Some land remains to his son, however, and Gradėre tries to salvage it from the predatory grasp of Symphorien Desbats, the asthmatic husband of Grad...
Iran. Dulles and U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson refused to pay blackmail to shifty, dictatorial Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. In so doing they were running a risk that Mossadegh would retaliate by turning oil-rich Iran over to the Communists. The gamble paid off when the Iranian people rose to support the Shah, overthrew Mossadegh and gave the U.S. another chance in Iran...
...letters stood in alliance. But the breach came soon after Chekhov returned from his Siberian tour, horrified by what he had seen. "How," he asked, "did Tolstoy's theory of nonresistance to evil stand up . . .? Did the convicts' nonresistance to flogging or forced labor or blackmail or prostitution transform them or those who were responsible for them into better men? . . . On the contrary, it turned them into bigger brutes." Soon Chekhov was warring with every Tolstoyan tenet, particularly the idea that "Christian love was incompatible with sexual love." And just who, demanded Chekhov, were these wonderful peasants Tolstoy...
...officially take part in the Korean war, explained Burchett suavely, the Chinese did not regard these men as prisoners of war and would continue to hold them until their release was negotiated "through diplomatic channels." The implication was clear: the airmen were to be used in a scheme to blackmail the U.S. into diplomatic recognition of Red China and concessions at the Korean peace talks...
...scheme posed a painful problem. The U.N. had no way of knowing how many of the 3,404 men really were alive and in Red hands. It could not submit to blackmail, but neither could it callously write off the missing men. Said the senior U.N. armistice commissioner, Major General Blackshear Bryan: "The Communists have got to give us an accounting of them-or else." But nobody in the U.N. command seemed to know what the "or else" could possibly...