Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense's sleazy tactics, set a hearing to decide whether Defense Lawyer Fred G. Moritt was guilty of contempt of court. Cried Actress Bankhead with unconcealed jubilation: "I've been exonerated by the jury ... in resisting-I mustn't use that word, but I will-blackmail...
...Sullivan. Sullivan was sports editor of the old New York Graphic when the tabloid began Winchell's "Broadway Hearsay" column. After Winchell moved on to Hearst's Mirror at a fancy salary, Sullivan inherited his column spot. The feud officially began when Winchell accused Sullivan of columnar "blackmail" for inviting Heiress Barbara Hutton to throw a party for poor children in New York (she sent...
...wanted another subcommittee appointed to work simultaneously on Item 4, which concerns exchange of prisoners. The Reds said only that they were taking it under advisement. By week's end, U.N. briefing officers were telling correspondents that the Reds were using the prisoner question as "blackmail" and as a "human club" held over the U.N.'s head...
...after seizing the map kits, chutes, blankets and field radios which all U.S. transports carry for emergency landings, the Reds accused the crew of "criminal intentions" and held them. Hungary ignored two State Department notes demanding the release of the flyers and the plane. Apparently the next step is blackmail: within a day or two of the plane's landing, Hungary blandly sent word that it is now dissatisfied with the multimillion-dollar ransom which the U.S. paid to Hungary to free Businessman Robert Vogeler...
...Awful Task. Joe Jang and two of his brothers held an agonized family conference, and came to an agonized decision: paying would not save their mother, but would simply cause her to be arrested and tortured again & again and would allow the Reds to make more & more blackmail demands. In the end, the Communists would do whatever they wished anyhow...