Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Requests in the form of cables from Hong Kong signed by intermediaries were frankly blackmail. One sent to San Francisco read: "Grandfather fined $2,000 U.S. Remit money immediately or lifeless." A Boston Chinese was informed that his family was in a concentration camp-unless he paid, each member would be lashed by ropes to five horses and pulled apart. The extortion letters and cables were even sent to such places as Wichita, Kans., which has only 100 Chinese...
...elder child. Temple's case is worse. Secretly she yearns for the bad old days, licks the memory of evil as a tongue searches a newly empty tooth-socket. She gets her chance to sin again when Red's younger brother Pete shows up to blackmail her with a packet of her own racy love letters to Red. Staring at Temple, Pete soon forgets about money, and Temple almost forgets about honor and duty, until her Negro maid Nancy gives her a melodramatic lesson in both...
...truce violations continued last week without letup. The Peking radio frankly admitted what the free world had suspected for weeks-that the breakdown at Kaesong was closely linked to the signing of the Japanese treaty (see INTERNATIONAL). The Reds had obviously hoped to use Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai, Ridgway proposed that choice...
While the Peking and Pyongyang radios reached new heights of invective ("cunning," "deceitful," "arrogant," "blackmail" and "lunacy"), the Communists last week broke off the Kaesong truce talks. It was the first time they had done so, although Matt Ridgway had done it twice...
...actor and a barman-they're brothers!" Maugin says. "Both of them live on other people's vices . . ." That is Maugin's record. At 14, he ran away from his home in the provinces with five sous in his pocket. The money was blackmail, squeezed out of a schoolboy pal whom he had caught raping his sister. Women paid his way more directly in Paris. An adoring prostitute kept him in meals and clothes; a mousy ingenue housed him (he left her pregnant); a nymphomaniac stage star married him and later took an overdose of morphine after...