Word: blackmailed
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...more as an equal. This goes for fees, too: the doctor should quit thinking of himself as a saint, admit frankly that he has to be a businessman. "Patients resent having fees tied to how much their leg or their life means to them, and regard this as biological blackmail." ¶The G.P. is getting a raw deal, complained Oklahoma's Dr. Malcom E. Phelps in his presidential address to the American Academy of General Practice in Dallas. Members agreed, passed a resolution denouncing the system whereby they are frozen out of many hospitals by boards under specialists...
...Face-Saver. Bourguiba's ultimatum, with its implicit threat that Tunisia would turn against the West unless he got his way, was an overt attempt at blackmail. And international blackmail is something which neither the U.S. nor Britain can afford to pay even once. Gloomily, many a chancellery and much of the world's press concluded that the three-weeks-old Anglo-American effort to mediate the quarrel between France and Tunisia was headed for failure...
...marquise, porcelain-cheeked Dana Wynter, whose "lovely hands drooped down like lilies on either side," coped with blackmail and adultery with equally exquisite calm. Far flashier was Director John Frankenheimer, whose busy directorial conceits-trick angles, mirror shots, closeups to the pore, camera peeps through iron grilles, even the little photographer's aperture-often upstaged the work itself while accenting its hollow passion. Sometimes the tricks of the director, working in tandem with the star-crossed lovers and their rococo surroundings, were more attention-catching than the story...
...Chinese whose age approximated that of a registered son, sent him on to the U.S. Once there, the newcomer often became virtually an indentured servant until he paid for his slot, frequently was harassed by extortionists and informers who threatened to expose his illegal entry unless he paid blackmail...
...Netherlands (in the West Irian dispute), since Indonesia has threatened to go Communist if they don't get things their way. It must be encouraging for the Western allies to realize that the U.S. has become so weak that it is at the point of allowing blackmail. If the U.S. has to make a choice, why not do it on its presumed high moral standards, of which it so frequently boasts...