Word: blackmailer
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...many critics, however, the judge's verdict on the main issue he was supposed to investigate, the security question, was far from reassuring. The report concedes that Profumo "disclosed a character defect which pointed to his being a security risk," adding that Christine might well have tried to "blackmail him or bring pressure on him to disclose secret information." Indeed, suggests Denning, Ivanov may have been under express orders from the Soviet government to blow up a scandal involving Profumo, in the hope that it would weaken U.S. trust in the government-and "he succeeded only too well...
...more common folk, the viewing of the often ravaged body was only a melancholy and intimate gesture of farewell, conducted in the privacy of parlor or bedroom. Today, thanks to the embalmer's art, the availability of insurance money, and the undertaker's emotional blackmail, it is too often a kind of public spectacle...
...Cohn is nothing if not a windmilling fighter-and no sooner had the indictment been handed down than he began swinging out on all sides. The charges against him, he cried, were "conceived by intimidation, threat and blackmail, a vendetta to get my scalp...
...same bill is Victim, a British import revolving around homosexuality. Its point (a good one) is that England's sex laws, which make homosexuality a criminal offense, are ineffective, barbaric, cruel, and an inducement to blackmail. Dirk Bogarde, as a happily married barrister with a homosexual past, turns in a fine performance. Victim drags in spots, but its point of view is admirable and is expressed without pious moralizing
...China's Yang Yun-yu returned the ball to the Soviets by lashing the U.S. for using nuclear blackmail "to enslave the world," attacking John Kennedy for his cunning "strategy" to divide China and the Soviet Union, and insisting that the foremost problem was not peaceful coexistence but maintaining the active struggle against imperialism. "How," she demanded, "can the oppressed coexist with their oppressors?" Lotte Ulbricht replied that Madame Yang was way off base. No one was demanding that oppressed nations live happily with their oppressors, she said, and added that Russia was, as always, "wholeheartedly behind the revolutionary...