Word: blackmailed
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Calls from Kennedy. What had happened was this: shortly after Castro's blackmail message, President Kennedy decided that the U.S. should accede to the exchange-but without giving it the appearance of official Government approval. He had both moral and political cause for his decision. The world already knew that the U.S. had sent the anti-Castro Cubans into the Bay of Pigs and thus bore a heavy responsibility for protecting their lives and assuring their freedom. Kennedy also judged-and accurately -that many Latin American nations, previously reluctant to admit that Castro...
...miles away, where Krim's image was projected on a huge screen in the main auditorium. First subject on Krim's mind was De Gaulle's unilateral declaration of a cease-fire in Algeria. Instead of welcoming an end to the fighting, Krim denounced it as "blackmail," called it "premature from a military, psychological and political point of view...
...side there are those like Richard Nixon, who declare that the tractor deal is blackmail--another disastrous loss of prestige for the U.S. Nixon's position is probably the sanest criticism of the Castro proposal, since Nixon is simply capitalizing on the American public's worry about its prestige abroad, a concern that cost Nixon votes in the recent campaign. But in the more extreme versions of this attempt to exploit Castro's offer by crying blackmail, there are ugly hints of another cry that one would prefer not to hear in American politics again: appeasement...
...Maudie Robinson, he was surprised in a hotel room by a man claiming to be Mrs. Robinson's husband. Before young Sir Hari discovered that the man was not her husband and that he was the victim of one of the world's oldest blackmail games, he had paid $750,000 to the conspirators, among them his own British aide. Eventually, the truth came out and the case went to court, where Sir Hari's own counsel, Lord John Simon (later Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer), described his client as "a poor, green, shivering, abject...
...girl in the bath towel will soon try to blackmail the company. When the girl turns out to be a researcher on his magazine he offers her a $200-a-week raise and even a wedding ring, which she accepts, to the relief of Leading Man Martin, who obviously found small pleasure in his Night's Work because...