Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazen Blackmail [Hungarian Style...
...consideration were the applications of Italy and eight other non-Communist nations. Russia would agree to admit them only if the Assembly also approved the applications of Hungary and four other Russian captives. The U.S. called Russia's package deal a plain case of blackmail. When the vote came, Russia's package failed to win the necessary two-thirds majority, though the balloting was 22 to 21 in its favor. More important, 16 nations, including England and France, abstained. Technically, it was a U.S. victory, but obviously, a lot of nations still believe in admitting everybody, good...
...This is nothing but blackmail, and could well be the beginning of another Barbary Pirate Affair ... If I were imprisoned under such circumstances ... I would rather spend a year in jail than to have the U.S. spend one cent in ransom...
...industry. Columnist David Lawrence charged Bolivia, in collusion with British-Southeast Asia interests, with "the biggest holdup in the whole field of raw materials," and asserted that its tin owners, "now getting a 100% return on their invested capital, expect even more if the new phases of the blackmail should be successful...
...very thing that gives Pal Joey its distinction-its unabashed look at sordid doings-may always disconcert the people for whom musicomedy means moonlight & roses, or at any rate does not mean blackmail and kept men. O'Hara's account of a small-time heel with his naive boasts and shameless buttering-up, and of the rich, man-eating tigress who loves him enough to keep him in style and stake him to a nightclub, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave her, is vividly hardboiled. For once, musicomedy plays with people rather than paper dolls...