Word: blackmailed
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...AMERICAN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: "The U.S. has shown every genuine desire to solve problems that threat en world peace. It cannot go against its policy here. If the U.S. and the world and we, for that matter, reject blackmail - the U.S. regards oil diplomacy, for ex ample, as blackmail - I do not think the U.S. and the world should tolerate Israeli blackmail in terms of Israel's military stance and the possibility...
...complex and subtle to fit their material into a single hour. The first 60 episodes were based on entire Erle Stanley Gardner novels, and after the stock of novels ran out, Gardner's script supervision insured the same level of complexity. The new show is simple-minded. Threats of blackmail are explained in detail, then explained again. Paul Drake no longer gives a quick account of the information he has gathered. Instead, he shows home movies of the people he has tailed...
Hunt vehemently denies that he and his wife were attempting to shake down the White House for hush money. "Every time I hear the word blackmail it makes my blood boil. It wasn't blackmail or hush money ... It was maintenance payments and lawyers' fees, the same sort of arrangement that the CIA gives its agents who are captured. We had no silence to sell. We knew the grand jury would be impaneled following the trial, and that we would be immunized and forced to talk. Just because John Dean thought he was paying hush money doesn...
...abandoned her, she was left alone in the world--a pariah from the social circles she had once frequented. Twenty years later she reads that her daughter has married a rich peer, Lord Windermere. Adopting the pseudonym 'Erlynne' as a disguise, she returns to London and sets out to blackmail Lord Windermere in the hope of retrieving her lost place in society...
...almost impossible to check out, other than ask the Soviets about it-and that would have been a waste of time." The report also surfaced in another form. A convicted Boston murderer claimed that the man he had killed had got some of the papers from Ellsberg in a blackmail scheme and had sold them to the Russians. FBI officials have dismissed this as a story designed to get the murder conviction overturned...